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Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 19:10:01 -0600
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To: Peter Osterberg <ohb@dataphone.se>, postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
From: mskc@io.com (Casey Claiborne)
Subject: Re: Moving a database
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Hi - 
        this may be a shot in the dark - but on other databases, one
can "download" data from specified table onto a disk or another type 
of medium and then "upload" it into a different table or that can be a part
of a different database (of course in the second database, the table
has to be already created).

Does postgres have this type of functionality? Most databases I 
have worked on have *something* like it.

I suppose that if one were *really* desperate, they could write
a program that selects all the data from the table, place it into 
a comma-delimeted file and then  write another program that reads
the data from the comma delimeted file and places it into the table
of choice.

Casey


At 09:45 PM 11/7/95, Peter Osterberg wrote:
>I had previoulsy my postgres-deamon running on a Linux-box. I did set up=20
>the postgres deamon on a SS20 today and everything seems to work as it=20
>should. I can create new DB's and so on. The problem comes when I try to=20
>move my existing database to the SS20. I get PQExec errors when try to visi=
>t=20
>the _moved_ database with 'monitor'. I moved the database by simply=20
>copying all the old database files with ftp and cp. I understand that I=20
>can't do like that. I also tryied to create an empty database with=20
>createdb and the same name, and then ftp and cp the database-files. And=20
>that didn't work either.
>I have the same version on both my machines, version 4.2.
>Is there anyway in which I can move the database between my computers.
>
>Regards Peter
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