Questions tagged [pg-dump]
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How to take backup of PostgreSQL 9.4 database to remote server using pg_basebackup?
We want to take the logical and base backup on different server machine in the network. Currently both backups are running on same server machine causing space issues. We have the scripts in place ...
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Differences between .out and .sql in pg_dump PostgreSQL
I create a backup file of postgeSQL database:
>pg_dump --dbname=db_test --host=localhost --username=user -F c -f dump_test.out
In documentation for pg_dump is used extension .sql and for ...
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postgres database with multiple database object owners and pg_dump
with a postgres 11.2 database with multiple database object owners and trying to use the following command as the database owner (not the postgres superuser):
pg_dump -h hostname -p 5432 -U ...
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How Can I Move Column Definitions From One Table to Another (psql PostgreSQL)?
I have added many new columns to a table in my database in my local environment with ADD COLUMN statements, over 30. My application is split into multiple environments (UAT, STAG, PROD) and we are ...
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How should I be backing up Postgres for this scenario?
So the way I have been backing up Postgres is with:
pg_dumpall -U eox-dev -h localhost --clean --file=/home/backups/postgres.sql
I want to make sure I have a production ready backup that has ...
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Database Size is Different after pg_restore (389 GB vs 229 GB)
I created a backup of my database in a PostgreSQL 11.6 (with TimescaleDB 1.60 extension) using pg_dump:
PGPASSWORD=mypassword pg_dump -h 127.22.0.4 -p 5432 -U postgres -Z0 -Fc database_development
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How to Install postgresql-client-11 on Ubuntu 18.04
I need to use the pg_basebackup/pg_dump program on an Ubuntu 18.04 system to connect to a remote PostgreSQL 11.6 server.
However, the current system only contains pg_basebackup 10.10 and the remote ...
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pg_restore: error: could not read from input file: end of file
I do try to create a dump of a table, that is stored inside of my database.
The table is called
webapp_product
In order to create the dump, I do use following commands:
docker-compose exec db1 ...
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Are there limitations on using pg_dump on a materialized view such that the data won't be included in the results?
I have a database, call it maps, which contains 2 schemas, a & b. In each schema I have a number of tables: a.t1, a.t2, b.t1, b.t2 (plus others). The column sets on each of these tables is ...
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How do I dump a Postgres table and restore under another user/role?
I am getting an error when I try to restore a Postgres database table to a different user/role than from which it was dumped.
I am doing the pg_dump as OS user: 'postgres', and doing the restore as ...
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pg_dump - table dependencies when using --table
The documentation says this when using -t table:
Note When -t is specified, pg_dump makes no attempt to dump any other
database objects that the selected table(s) might depend upon.
Therefore, ...
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multiple pg_dump
My Postgres 9.3 cluster has 9 databases. I want to take backup of these databases using pg_dump utility of PostgreSQL 10.
Since individual dbs are too large in size (~350GB), I want to run pg_dump ...
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Missing data for one schema in pg_dump
I have a Postgres 9.6 database with several schemas, and a regular backup of this database is done with a command like
pg_dump -h localhost -d db -U postgres -Fc -f file.dump
When I restored a ...
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Using pg_dump to create 144 backups per day
Imagine the following scenario (this may not be a viable or sensible idea but please imagine that it is).
Using Ubuntu, a cron job calls pg_dump and backs up a Postgres database every 10 minutes. In ...
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Postgresql strange backup message with docker
I'm trying to backing up my remote PostgreSql database into the local one.
The backup command is the following:
docker run --rm -e PGUSER=user -e PGPASSWORD=password -e PGDATABASE=db -it postgres:11....
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How to use pg_restore in database with different postgis installation (postgis schema location)?
I have database1 where postgis is installed in the public schema.
And database2 where postgis is located in a schema called postgis.
When I dump database1.schema1, schema1.table1 references its geom ...
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postgresql pg_dump out of memory
is it possible to limit somehow usage of resources for pg_dump?
The problem is, whole DBase is 775GB and i have two very large tables:
pg_largeobject table is – 390GB
pg_largeobject statistics:
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How to dump only create table statements (or table definitions only) with pg_dump in Postgresql
I want only the table definitions, not wiews nor functions.
I have a schema named "cvp". I try:
pg_dump --schema-only -n cvp -t 'cvp.*' --format plain
And I get:
pg_dump: No matching tables ...
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pg_restore: [archiver] did not find magic string in file header: please check the source URL and ensure it is publicly accessible
I have been trying to push a dump file from my local Postgrel DB (which I uploaded into my Google Drive and is accessible to public) into my Heroku remote DB with the following URL:
heroku pg:backups:...
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Postgresql cannot restore partial pg_dump “relation ”public.my_table_seq“ does not exist”
In my database I dumped some tables via the following psql command:
pg_dump -t my_table1 -t mytable2 > my_dump.sql
And I try to import it into a postgresql docker image as a standalone database ...
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pg_dump not recognized, even though I've confirmed the binary is present
I'm trying to do a dump of a table in PostgreSQL via pgAdmin3. When I try to run the the following command:
pg_dump -t schema.table_name database_name > chosen_save_name.sql
it errors out and ...
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pg_restore error while initializing. (Closed)
I am getting the error of:
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error while INITIALIZING:
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR: unrecognized configuration parameter "...
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Can I get pg_dump to simplify the ACL commands?
When using pg_dump with a database with non-default schema foo like so:
pg_dump --schema-only --schema='foo' -U myuser -d mydb -h myhost -W > mydb.sql
The SQL dump file is full of these seemingly ...
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pg_restore “CREATE CAST” not executed if using public or pg_catalog schemas
While moving database to another instance I'm using pg_dump and pg_restore with intermediate file.
Dump file was created like this:
pg_dump --host $SRC_DB_HOST --port 5432 "dbname=$SRC_DB user=$...
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pg_dump does not return schema for repmgr objects
While trying to browse repmgr.monitoring_history, I noticed it has many tens of millions of records. Wanting to get a peak at the indexes that (may or may not) already exist on the table, I try a ...
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Moving a large table from Localhost to remote server
Postgres 11, Windows 10, pgAdmin 4
I have a large post-gis enabled table (29million rows, 20GB + a 5GB spatial index) stored on my local machine (localhost).
I want to move this table to an AWS ...
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PSQL incomplete backup : how to debug
I've been doing backups of my database " screen ".
after connecting to PSQL and typing \l+
I'm getting (among other things):
Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | ...
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pg_dump can't write to drive C | Windows 10
Problem is just as the title says.
pg_dump literally can't write to anywhere on drive C: - the drive windows is installed on.
More details:
created Temp folder on C: drive
modified access - added ...
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Dumping Postgres schema from Google cloud SQL
Now this may look trivial but it is a managed service so I don't have the superuser rights. And various schema/tables/sequences have different roles/users as their owners so I can't just use pg_dump ...
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DROP DEFAULT on psql restore fails because column not existing anymore
A dump creates a command to remove default values like:
ALTER TABLE IF EXISTS test.simulation ALTER COLUMN gid DROP DEFAULT;
When on restore the column with the default value do not exist anymore, ...
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PostgreSQL pg_dump custom file input not dumping data
When I'm using custom format (-Fc) in pg_dump, the file is smaller (42kb), and when I restore it, it only restores the tables and columns, not the data.
But when I try to use plain text (-Fp), the ...
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Veryfing pg_restore database with pg_dump database
I just did a migration from Postgres 9.4 to 10 database.
How to verify if everything is okay?
I tried to look into huge tables, the rows are different (somehow in Postgres 10 then are more rows than ...
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Postgres Backup fails with: pg_dump: could not fsync file: Bad file descriptor
I am running Postgres 11 on Windows 10 and this should be my last backup before moving to Linux:
"C:\PostgreSQL\pg11\bin\pg_dump.exe" -U postgres -h localhost -p 5432 --verbose --jobs=4 --format=d --...
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Migrate complete postgres database cluster to another machine using pg_dump
I am referring to
How to get a working and complete PostgreSQL DB backup and test
In this example/solution, which part of the restore process does actually the "CREATE DATABASE sandbox"? I have been ...
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pg_dump custom archive and create backup date
I have archive file with custom format created by pg_dump.
Does it contain the backup creation date?
I can't create backups by myself. I receive the archived files over specific network channel. ...
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Does pg_dump flag -j give performance improvement up to -j 16 or -j 32 or even -j 64?
I am backing up and restoring a large DB (7+TB) ... I am using
pg_dump -j 8 -Fd
(8 parallel dump threads with directory formatting).
I just wondered if anybody has tested with a higher -j value ...
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pg_dump: Write failed: Connection reset by peer
we are trying to move all database data to other location.
we chose to perform pg_dump and we encountered few problems:
first was out of memory problem:
during pg_dump initialization we get an error:
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how to automatically create the associated schema when I `pg_restore` a table?
I backed a table into a file using something like pg_dump --table=ex.tab.
But when I restore the dump file into a newly created database, it complains that the schema ex does not exist. Looking into ...
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Need a “pg_dump” command to take the backup of the child tables along with its master table for PostgreSQL database
We have one master table and multiple child tables (dependent tables) associated with it.
While taking the backup of the master table , I would like to take the backup of all its child (dependent) ...
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How to know or recover my pg_dump password? [closed]
I would like to backup my Postgre db using pg_dump. However, the first question asked by the prompt is the password.
But I have no idea what it is. Indeed, it is different from my admin account ...
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Retrieving database dump after copying from remote server
I used command
pg_dump -C -h remotehost -U remoteuser db_name | psql localhost -U localuser
to copy database on remote server to my local machine.
Can I somehow retreive the dump obtained after ...
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How to dump multiple databases of the same cluster in single execution?
I have 100 databases in my cluster. I need to backup 30 databases (as single file or multiple file, anything is fine). I could do it for tables using pg_dump with -t.
Is there any way to do ...
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Can pg_dump be broken into batches for large DBs?
I have a fairly huge DB and pg_dump croaks on me when I try to export it to a single file. Is there a way to do it in batches, whereby each batch would cover a segment of tables and export the schema/...
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importing-a-sql-db-dump-postgres11 pgadmin4
I have a SQL dump file: C:\Users\Rayyan\Desktop\dump_2.sql.
I have been trying to import this for so long. I am using pgadmin 4, and since I could find nothing in that GUI to help, I tried using ...
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PostgreSQL 10.3 pg_dumpall fails: server closed the connection unexpectedly
System: Windows 10 Pro 64bit, Version 10.0.17134 Build 17134. with Postgres 10.3 db server.
I backup my postgres db using the following statements:
"C:\PostgreSQL\pg10\bin\pg_dumpall.exe" -U ...
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pg_dump and pg_dumpall tools backup create zero size backup file from linux putty terminal
I have installed postgres database version 9.6, 10 on OS Centos 7 64 bit. I'm trying to take a backup with this command:
-bash-4.2$ pg_dump -h localhost -Fc backupdb > /var/lib/pgsql/...
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Importing large SQL dump with millions of INSERT statements
I need to import a big .sql file (8.1GB when unpacked) into PostgreSQL. I tried to use \i /path/to/file.sql but it is way too slow.
How does one speed up the import? I need to import this data weekly....
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How to disable foreign key constraints in Postgres dump file?
I used pg_dump -U postgres -p 65432 --table=tableName --data-only --column-inserts DBName>fileName.sql to dump one particular table's rows. Now I need to insert them to another database but I get ...
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Dump limit in PostgreSQL
I am trying to dump a database which has a size of just over 100 GiB. I am using the following command (with pv to give a progress bar to observe where this problem occurs):
pg_dump -h <host> -...
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Change pg_dump directory output to table name instead of object number
pg_dump -F d will result in multiple <number>.dat.gz files which represent the object number in the database.
I wish pg_dump create those files in the format <table name>.dat.gz instead so ...
