retoring a PostgreSQL database from one server to another

[Andras Simon]

On 2/28/07, Beau BOB <man_55 at hotmail.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have postgresql 7.4.1 and I'm restoring to another server that has
> postgresql 7.4.6
>
> for dumping I'm using :
> pg_dumpall --clean -h localhost -U postgres -p 5432 > dbfile
>
> and for restoring I use many methods:
> psql -h localhost -U postgres -d template1 -f dbfile
>
> and I have this error message when I run the PgAdminIII to connect my data
> base:
> "error relation pg_settings not found " & " error relation pg_user not
> found"
>
> and when I use the commands:
> psql -l
> ERROR:  relation "pg_catalog.pg_user" not found
>
> notice that when I make restore , I have many error message about missing
> relation ;
>
> please can anybody help me to resolv my problem
> thanks for advance

Are you doing the restore as the postgres user?
Also, it's useful to redirect stderror to a file when doing the
restore, so you can inspect it later.

Andras