Moving a database between servers

Quoting "Michael ." <phifli@yahoo.com>:

I am trying to move a postgresql database from one
server to another. The original server is 7.1.3, and
the new one is 7.3.4.

I went on the old and used the command:
pg_dumpall > dump

On the new:
psql -e < dump

I get this for multiple functions. (Error follows
surrounded by *****'s)

CREATE FUNCTION "transaction_visit" (integer) RETURNS
integer AS '
select visit_id
from (
select *
from visit_history as vh
where sequence = (
select max(sequence)
from visit_history
where vh.firm_id = firm_id
and vh.patient_id =
patient_id
and vh.visit_id = visit_id
)
) as v
where v.firm_id = (select firm_id from
current_transaction)
and v.patient_id = $1
and v.person_id = (select person_id from
current_transaction)
and v.inked is null
' LANGUAGE 'sql';

****ERROR: Relation "current_transaction" does not
exist****

The current_transaction is a TEMPORARY table created
like this:
CREATE FUNCTION "open_session" (integer,integer)
RETURNS integer AS '
create temporary table current_transaction as
select $1 as firm_id,
$2 as person_id,
timeofday()::timestamp as
transaction_timestamp,
timeofday()::timestamp as
history_timestamp;
select 1;
' LANGUAGE 'sql';

How do I get these functions to import correctly if it
fails due to this "current_transaction" table not
being found? (only due to it being a temporarily table
created by a different command)

I had problem moving form 7.1.3 to 7.4 too. The easiest thing to do is to (if
you can) use 7.4's pg_dump. Just setup the TCP/IP connectivity if you don't
have it already and dump using a superuser account.

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"Michael ." <phifli@yahoo.com> writes:

[ SQL function that references a TEMP table ]

How do I get these functions to import correctly if it
fails due to this "current_transaction" table not
being found?

I don't think there is any good solution in 7.3, because it will insist
on trying to validate the function body. A hack workaround is to create
the "current_transaction" table (as a plain, not TEMP, table), then
import your dump, then drop the table.

7.4 has a better solution (you can turn off function body checking in
CREATE FUNCTION), and 7.4's pg_dump will use it.

regards, tom lane

Unfortunately I do not have the ability to update to
7.4, although I did try the quick "hack." It worked
for a few functions but later on in the import it
begins to say that current_transaction does not exist
again. Could you think of any reasonf or this? I
don't see any sort of DROP/DELETE for this table.
(The one I added as a hack to get everytihng to import
correctly, that is...)

Appreciate the help,
Mike
--- Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

"Michael ." <phifli@yahoo.com> writes:

[ SQL function that references a TEMP table ]

How do I get these functions to import correctly

if it

fails due to this "current_transaction" table not
being found?

I don't think there is any good solution in 7.3,
because it will insist
on trying to validate the function body. A hack
workaround is to create
the "current_transaction" table (as a plain, not
TEMP, table), then
import your dump, then drop the table.

7.4 has a better solution (you can turn off function
body checking in
CREATE FUNCTION), and 7.4's pg_dump will use it.

regards, tom lane

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