Question

i was using the following syntax for pg_dump and restore

pg_dump eval --inserts -b -c --encoding UTF8 -Fc -f eval.sql.tar.gz -x -U postgres
createdb -T template0 test -U postgres
pg_restore -d test eval.sql.tar.gz -e -U postgres

the dump was successfull with no errors, but restore makes a some errors, i am dumping and restoring in same machine with same user and privilege all…

i have tried out with other formats also, plain, tar, compressed all gets the same error..

my version of pg is 8.4.11 and psql version is 8.4.11

i am not sure what makes these errors.. can anyone help me

 pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error while PROCESSING TOC:
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 4965; 0 138871 TABLE DATA ir_act_report_xml insigni
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR:  invalid input syntax for integer: "purchase.order"
LINE 1: ...st for Quotation', 'ir.actions.report.xml', NULL, 'purchase....
                                                             ^
    Command was: INSERT INTO ir_act_report_xml VALUES (350, 'Request for Quotation', 'ir.actions.report.xml', NULL, 'purchase.order', 'purcha...

Answer 1

this did the trick

pg_dump database_name -c -Ft -f file_name.tar 

pg_restore -d database_name -c file_name.tar

before this i was trying to restore with out including -c(clean)

even though -c is included in pg_dump it is not used in pg_restore unless we say to use…