Re: how to get pg_restore to continue if an error occurs

I guess this is something that is not a common occurrence as no one
has yet to suggest a solution.

So it looks like I'm going to have to answer my own question.

Firstly, I'd like to say how well thought out is the design of the
dump/restore utils.

If you use the -F c option in pg_dump, this creates what is called a
custom format dump file. This basically creates dump segments which
can be referred to by ID, which can seem by using pg_restore -l to
list the content of the archive. So in my case, the list is:-

;
; Archive created at Mon Apr 14 17:20:44 2008
;     dbname: thedb
;     TOC Entries: 66
;     Compression: -1
;     Dump Version: 1.7-0
;     Format: CUSTOM
;     Integer: 4 bytes
;     Offset: 8 bytes
;
;
; Selected TOC Entries:
;
4; 2200 ACL public postgres
5; 250601 TABLE table1 ownername
6; 250603 TABLE table2 ownername
...
3; 2200 COMMENT SCHEMA public postgres

So by saving this output and commenting out (using the ';') the
entries you what ignored, you can then run the pg_restore util with
the --use-list=list-file and only the uncommented items will be
restored.

Pretty neat.


Chris
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