Re: Database Import..Please Help Me

Steve Crawford <scrawford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:47:24 -0700

Premila Devi wrote:

  Good Day. I like
to “Import Database”
Using the postgresql-8.3.7-1-windows.

  But, at here I
did not see any “IMPORT
DATABASE FEATURES”…

The file you attached is empty. We need more info. As a starting point,
PostgreSQL dumps are created using pg_dump. The dump file can be a text
file designed to be read back using psql or in special formats designed
to be read by pg_restore. The text version is just a series of SQL
statements to restore the database. The various flags to pg_dump
determine the type of file created as well as things like schema-only,
data-only, specific tables, etc.

If the data is not a PostgreSQL created dump, you need to do some work
yourself. For example, if it is a CSV file you need a table with the
correct columns and you can use psql and the copy command with the csv
option.

Cheers,

Steve