[postgis-users] Loading a PostGIS dump

[Paul Ramsey]

The COPY command used to load tables is basically 100% silent, so it
just might have been working away. A good thing to check is 'top' to
see if the postgres process is busy using CPU. If so, it's hard at
work on your process. If not, then perhaps something is awry.

P

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Lee Hachadoorian
<Lee.Hachadoorian+L at gmail.com> wrote:
> New Linux machine, new PostGIS install (postgresql-9.3-postgis-2.1). I
> created DB and added extensions. Now trying to load database using
> postgis_restore.pl. This is a large database (63GB dump, created from
> DB that was probably 600GB or more).
>
> The script ran for a while. Then it stopped at
>
>  setval
> --------
>      53
> (1 row)
>
> It's been hanging out there for hours now, so I assume something is
> hopelessly wrong.
>
> The loader created foo.dump.lst at 10:50am and I piped errors to a
> text file. Errors file shows that I did not create a user who owns one
> of the schemas. `ERROR:  role "geo_user" does not exist` appears 260
> times.
>
> Can I just kill the loader script with Ctrl+C? Is database
> recoverable? Should I just drop database and try again from the
> beginning? Is failure related to missing role, or if not how do I
> figure out what the error is so that I can get this to run to
> completion?
>
> Best,
> --Lee
>
> --
> Lee Hachadoorian
> Asst Professor of Geography, Temple University
> http://geospatial.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
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