Le mardi 02 mai 2006 à 10:26 -0400, John DeSoi a écrit : > On May 2, 2006, at 10:07 AM, tony wrote: > > > Reading through in a text editor (nedit) rather than with pico or nano > > in a terminal the sql colour coding gives me a clue: > > > > - the data contains non escaped ' as in "d'Anjou" > > > > Is this my issue? > > Again, you have not posted exactly what the error is. Show the > commands you used to dump and restore and include the exact error > output from the restore operation. pg_dump with -d option and psql as per the doc lots of errors fly by during the restore the most remarkable being "illegal command \N" and "relation does not exist" for the non restored tables In the end the database exists I can connect to it and browse the data that is there. But like I said I am going back to the manual way that I used in the good old days. Thanks Tony