Import SQL dump into PostgreSQL database

Question

We are switching hosts and the old one provided a SQL dump of the PostgreSQL database of our site.

Now, I\'m trying to set this up on a local WAMP server to test thi

Answer 1

I had more than 100MB data, therefore I could not restore database using Pgadmin4.

I used simply postgres client, and write below command.

postgres@khan:/$ pg_restore -d database_name /home/khan/Downloads/dump.sql

It worked fine and took few seconds.You can see below link for more information. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/app-pgrestore.html

Answer 2

Just for funsies, if your dump is compressed you can do something like

gunzip -c filename.gz | psql dbname

As Jacob mentioned, the PostgreSQL docs describe all this quite well.

Answer 3

I use:

cat /home/path/to/dump/file | psql -h localhost -U <user_name> -d <db_name>

Hope this will help someone.