On Friday, December 30, 2011 7:49:31 am Culley Harrelson wrote: > They are just your standard sql errors seen in the output of psql mydb < > backup.sql > > > ALTER TABLE > ERROR: could not create unique index "ht_user_pkey" > DETAIL: Key (user_id)=(653009) is duplicated. > > There is a unique index on user_id in the 8..4.0 system and, of course, > only one record for 653009. > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/app-pgdump.html When doing the pg_dump of the 8.4 database you might want to use the -c option " -c --clean Output commands to clean (drop) database objects prior to outputting the commands for creating them. (Restore might generate some harmless errors.) This option is only meaningful for the plain-text format. For the archive formats, you can specify the option when you call pg_restore. " My suspicion is that there is already data in the tables of the 9.1 server from previous restore attempts. -- 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