Moving a database with pg_dump and psql -U postgres db_name < … results in “ERROR: relation ”table_name“ does not exist”

Question

I moved my PostgresQL database from one hard drive to another using

pg_dump -U postgres db_name > db_name.dump

and then

psq         


        

Answer 1

Are you moving to the same version of PostgreSQL? There might be issues if you make a dump with pg_dump 8.3 and try to restore it in Postgresql 8.4. Anyway, assuming that it is the same version try the following:

Dump all global objects, such as users and groups (don't know if they were missing in your dump):

pg_dumpall -g -U postgres > globals.sql

Dump schema of database:

pg_dump -Fp -s -v -f db-schema.sql -U postgres dbname

Dump contents of database:

pg_dump -Fc -v -f full.dump -U postgres dbname

Now restore.

psql -f globals.sql
psql -f db-schema.sql dbname
pg_restore -a -d dbname -Fc full.dump

That is my $0.02. Hope it helps.