Mike Gould wrote: > All, > > I am new to PostGres 8 (using 8.2.4 windows version). We have for > several years been using iAnywhere's SQL Anywhere product with our > commercial transportation software. With ASA there are 2 files that > must be distributed for the database, a filename.db and a filename.log. > When we do a new installation we normally try and preload the database > with data used for lookups, some registration data and if a customer is > moving from another software where we've been contracted to convert > their old data to our system we preload that. Once that is done we can > distribute the database as part of the setup process. > > How can we do this with PostGres? Other than backup and restore or > creating SQL scripts I haven't been able to find another method. Some > of these tables may have over a million rows in them initially if we > convert old data. I would give backup/restore a try. A million rows isn't very big in postgres terms. On relatively low-end hardware, I am routinely able to backup about 300Gb in about 35 databases in under 3 hours. Sean
