Re: Restoring the database

From: Tomka Gergely <tomka(at)zeus(dot)gau(dot)hu>
To: Cody Phanekham <Cody(dot)Phanekham(at)salmat(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Restoring the database
Date: 2003-09-02 06:28:41
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0309020826190.31338-100000@zeus.gau.hu
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2003-09-02 ragyogó napján Cody Phanekham ezt üzente:

> Hi,
>
> Im trying to restore a postgresql database from a backup that was done
> a few days ago. The backup is on CD and was a straight copy of
> everything in the /$postgresql_install_path/
>
> The problem is i want to restore a certain database and not every
> database. How would i know what files correspond to which database ?
>
> eg. I've got 3 databases called 'books', 'dvds' and 'videos'. I only
> want to restore 'dvds' from the CD.

I think for this you need to know the OID of the database. This is not
easy without running db. So restore the full db, and next time use pg_dump
<databasename> > dbsave.sql for backup.

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Tomka Gergely
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