Re: pg_dump and copy command

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane
> Sent: 05 April 2006 15:03
> To: Chris Velevitch
> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and copy command
>
> "Chris Velevitch" <chris.velevitch@gmail.com> writes:
> > I've dumped a 7.4.5 database using pg_dump and when I used
> the result
> > via pgAdmin v1.4.2 on a remote 7.4.11 server, I get an error:-
>
> >      ERROR:  syntax error at or near "45183" at character 5848
>
> Does pgAdmin promise that it can read pg_dump scripts?
> They're intended to be fed into psql.  The symptom sounds
> like pgAdmin is getting confused about where the command
> boundaries are, which is fairly easy to do in a mixed
> SQL-and-COPY-data script.

pgAdmin PQexec's its input, therefore cannot handle the copy from stdin
in a pg_dump script. It should work if you use INSERTs instead of COPY
though.

Regards, Dave.