Re: Restaring a dumped database

Bigger measured by looking at the previous size of the database - that was 34 megabytes and the restored was 800
megabytes.What I noticed was some of my table had triple the amount of rows in contrast to the old database. :)     

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Bax" <fbax@sympatico.ca>
Sent: Wed, 11/10/2010 2:41pm
To: "PostgreSQL List - Novice" <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Restaring a dumped database

How did you measure "bigger"?


Mohlomi Moloi wrote:
> Thanks for the help Frank!! However I'm now faced with a question - Why my database after the restore worked, all of
asudden grew bigger. 
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mohlomi  Moloi
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Bax" <fbax@sympatico.ca>
> Sent: Mon, 11/8/2010 2:19pm
> To: "PostgreSQL List - Novice" <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>
> Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Restaring a dumped database
>
> Mohlomi Moloi wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I’ve used the following script for my dump; pg_dump -h 127.0.0.1 -p 5432
>> -U mohlomi -F p teleform  > "teleform_Backup.dump" – and it worked fine.
>>
>> After my dump, I dropped the database teleform - My nightmare starts
>> when I try to restore and I get error massages that the database dropped
>> already exist etc...
>>
>> I used the script psql -h 127.0.0.1 -p 5432 -U mohlomi -d teleform <
>> "teleform_Backup.dump" for restoring the database.
>>
>> Funny enough the above scripts works at a table level!!!
>>
>> Any assistance will be welcomed.
>
>
>
> If you are trying to restore over an existing database; then you should
> either:
> 1) use -c option on pg_dump.
> 2) manually drop all tables, indexes and database.
>


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