Re: [GENERAL] Copying table to another database.

Nigel J. Andrews wrote:

>On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Wim wrote:
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>>>The next simple but dumb test, which I don't know if you have already tried, is
>>>to check that you can SELECT * FROM pg_* without error.
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>>"SELECT * FROM pg_*" gives:
>>ERROR:  Relation "pg_" does not exist
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>Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant the pg_* to represent all of the pg_ tables
>taken in turn. To get a list try:
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>SELECT relname FROM pg_class WHERE relname like 'pg_%' AND relkind = 'r'
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SELECT relname, relkind from pg_class;

works, but:

SELECT relname FROM pg_class WHERE relname like 'pg_%' AND relkind = 'r';
belbonedb_v2-# ;
server closed the connection unexpectedly
        This probably means the server terminated abnormally
        before or while processing the request.
The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Failed.

>I see in the meantime there's been more messages suggesting the hardware is at
>fault.  I still wouldn't rule that out, especially if you haven't been able to
>properly test these things. Running a second box in parallel once you are
>up and will help show if this is the problem. However, in this regard I'd be
>more inclined to use a replacement system for production, you can extract your
>data alright and should be able to recreate the schema for earlier dumps, and
>to then test the Sparc machine thoroughly. Perhaps even calling Sun to handle
>or help with this.
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