On Monday, November 21, 2011 6:39:55 am Yan Chunlu wrote: > got it. thank you very much for you help. I found out this problem too > late, and there is no backup. > > luckily there was not too much data for this, and my app keeps running > without error. > > I am not sure if they are related but I could not use pg_restore to import > data dumped by "pg_dump -Fc"; > > pg_restore will print some error message about "duplicate primary key", and > the table is empty. no data has been imported. > > pg_restore supposed to import the data and ignore the errors. does any > one have the similar problem? > pg_restore may ignore the error and keep on going but the database will not. In other words when pg_restore receives the error it will continue on to the next item (unless you have the -e switch on). As far as the server(database) is concerned duplicate primary key is still an error and the data will not be loaded. -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general