Thank you all but I've fixed the problem doing that 1) retrieved the original schema of the DB as a SQL script. 2) created a new database with just the empty schema 3) pg_restore on the new DB of a 'c' format dump of the production DB with the options --data-only and --disable-triggers thanks Paolo On 09/11/06, Jim C. Nasby <jim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 04:42:35PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > "Paolo Negri" <hungrylist@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > My problem is that I have to load the dump (from a 7.3) in a brand new > > database (8.1) and then I need to do quite a few changes to the schema > > dropping some old foreign constraint and adding some different ones. > > ... > > How can I tell to pg_dump to dump the schema with foreign keys > > construct instead of creating constraint trigger? > > You can't: the information just isn't there in 7.3. You'll need to look > at the trigger arguments and reconstruct the FKs. > > IIRC the contrib/adddepend script might be able to help you with this. Would a 7.4 or newer pg_dump connecting to a 7.4 database know enough to do this for you? If so, Paolo could restore his dump to a 7.3 install and go from there... -- Jim Nasby jim@xxxxxxxxx EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)
