Thank you, Oosterhout and Lane. The code is not written by me. The previous DB admin is not reachable. I was just the present-stage DB (newbie) admin, and I never touched PostgreSQL before.... :( On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 06:07:44PM +0800, Chun-fan Ivan Liao wrote: > > I used pg_dump to dump the old database out and psql to store the database > > into the new server, but the following two errors occurred: > > > > ERROR: incompatible library "/lib/libc.so.6": missing magic block > > HINT: Extension libraries are required to use the PG_MODULE_MAGIC macro. > > STATEMENT: CREATE FUNCTION "system"(cstring) RETURNS integer > > AS '/lib/libc.so.7', 'system' > > LANGUAGE c STRICT; > > Ok, here someone was cheating by invoking a system library function > directly. That's no longer supported. If you really want this you need > to make a small library with PG_MODULE_MAGIC; and a pg_system() function > that redirects to the real system(). > > That said, why are you doint this anyway. A better solution may be to > install a trusted language (like plperlu or plpython) and do the system > call from there. Could you tell me the exact command I should use? Replace the error command in the dumped file? > > > ERROR: value too long for type character varying(12) > > CONTEXT: COPY stulist, line 46803, column STU_CNAME: "??????(9debacdd)???" > > STATEMENT: COPY stulist ("COURSE_SN", "S_YEAR", "S_TERM", "COU_CODE", > > "CLASS", "REG_NO", "DPT_CODE", "DPT_SCNAME", "YEAR", "CREDIT", "COU_CNAME", > > "TEA_CODE", "TEA_CNAME", "STU_CNAME", "SCORE", "SCORE_A", "SERNO", "PANOPA", > > "UNIT", "TEMP") FROM stdin; > > Here the column is defined as 12 characters and you're trying to > inserts a 19 character string, which is bad. How you got that out of > pg_dump though I don't know. > I used pg_dump to dump the database again, and the statement and error was the same also. No idea what to do. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general