I am new to PostgreSQL and am trying to import a shapefile via the terminal with the following code:
shp2pgsql -I -s 4269 C:\MyData\roads\roads.shp roads | psql -U postgres -d <DBNAME>
The postgis extension has already been created. But I continue to get a syntax error:
postgres=# CREATE EXTENSION postgis;
ERROR: extension "postgis" already exists
postgres=#
postgres=# shp2pgsql -I -s 4326 /Users/alexander/Downloads/pluto/pluto.shp pluto | psql -U postgres -d postgres;
ERROR: syntax error at or near "shp2pgsql"
LINE 1: shp2pgsql -I -s 4326 /Users/alexander/Downloads/pluto/pluto....
^
postgres=#
Any idea as to what the problem could be?
Well that's because shp2pgsql is a command line executable. Something that you run in your shell (bash,sh etc). It's not intended to be executed in your psql console as you seem to be doing.
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On Windows 10, using psql with PostgreSQL 14 installed, I'm trying to restore a dump that is my_dump.sql.
I'm on Bash terminal currently.
I'm connected to psql server and I created a new database new_db, then a new superuser tobe.
Then I tried the command psql -d new_db < my_dump.sql but I'm getting the error stdin is not a tty
I tried the solution psql -U tobe -d new_db -f my_dump.sql from "stdin is not a tty" when populating Postgres database
because they mention the error but now I get a new error:
ERROR: syntax error at or near "ÿþ" LIGNE 1 : ÿþ
Are the two errors connected? Maybe the second error is only related to the command syntax. I'm not sure if I'm in the right direction.
Try
psql.exe -U tobe -d new_db -f my_dump.sql
I have a Postgesql database that I want to copy/replicate from my local machine to an AWS RDS instance.
I've created a dump as follows:
pg_dump -v -U postgres mydb > mydb.dump
I then tried to copy to my RDS as follows:
psql -f mydb.dump -h XXXXXXXXXXXX.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com -p 5432 -U postgres -d mydb
However, I get the following error:
psql:mydb.dump:1: error: invalid command \
psql:mydb.dump:6: ERROR: syntax error at or near "ÿ_"
LINE 1: ÿ_-"\o""edrp\nou"tnsctme e
^
I then tried to rule out any issues with RDS by copying the archive to another local database as follows:
pg_restore -U postgres -d mydbcopy mydb.dump
I received an error:
pg_restore: error: input file does not appear to be a valid archive
I also tried the preceding as follows:
psql -f my.dump -U postgres -d mydbcopy
And got the same error as before:
psql:mydb.dump:1: error: invalid command \
psql:mydb.dump:6: ERROR: syntax error at or near "ÿ_"
LINE 1: ÿ_-"\o""edrp\nou"tnsctme e
^
I am using Windows Powershell and Postgresql 13.2.
Am I missing something ?
It seems to be an issue with PSQL tools in view that I'm getting the error even when trying to copy locally.
I managed to solve this problem by using
pg_dump -f dump.sql --inserts mydb
It turns out using the redirect ">" means PowerShell does the file writing and it uses UTF16 which doesn't play nice with psql. The -f flag makes pg_dump do the writing itself.
I'm having an issue getting a database restore using pg_restore to work. I've got Postgres 12.2 installed on my Mac running High Sierra (10.13.6). It was installed with Brew.
I created a simple database "foo" with table "foo" to test this out:
Nates-MacBook-Pro:k8s natereed$ psql -d foo
psql (12.2, server 12.1)
Type "help" for help.
foo=# SELECT table_schema,table_name
FROM information_schema.tables
WHERE table_schema='public' ORDER BY table_schema,table_name;
table_schema | table_name
--------------+------------
public | foo
(1 row)
Generate dump:
pg_dump -Fc foo -f foo.backup
When I try to restore, nothing happens. pg_restore just hangs:
pg_restore -h localhost -p 5432 -U postgres -v -Fc -f foo.backup
I've tried various permutations of this command, but every time it just hangs. In Activity Monitor, I see the process but it is not using any CPU.
Online help says:
pg_restore restores a PostgreSQL database from an archive created by pg_dump.
Usage:
pg_restore [OPTION]... [FILE]
General options:
-d, --dbname=NAME connect to database name
-f, --file=FILENAME output file name
-F, --format=c|d|t backup file format (should be automatic)
-l, --list print summarized TOC of the archive
-v, --verbose verbose mode
-V, --version output version information, then exit
-?, --help show this help, then exit
For pg_restore -f is parameter for the output file: it is not the input file. Remove -f in your example:
pg_restore -h localhost -p 5432 -U postgres -v -Fc foo.backup
I downloaded the xbrldb_SEC_pg_2014-11-02.pg.gzip postgres pg_dump file from arelle.org. I then ran the schema ddl file in pgAdminIII and it recreated all of the databases, functions, etc.
When I try to restore the databases using the following:
desktop:~/Downloads$ sudo postgres zcat xbrldb_SEC_pg_2014-11-02.pg.gzip | psql -U postgres public
I get:
sudo: postgres: command not found psql: FATAL: Peer authentication failed for user "postgres"
I can zcat the file into a file to expand it. Looks like it is a pg_dump file.
postgres=> pg_restore -a /home/jeremy/Downloads/xbrldb_SEC_pg_2014-11-02.txt
postgres-> ;
ERROR: syntax error at or near "pg_restore"
LINE 1: pg_restore -a /home/jeremy/Downloads/xbrldb_SEC_pg_2014-11-0...
^
postgres=> pg_restore -a postgres /home/jeremy/Downloads/xbrldb_SEC_pg_2014-11-02.txt;
ERROR: syntax error at or near "pg_restore"
LINE 1: pg_restore -a postgres /home/jeremy/Downloads/xbrldb_SEC_pg_...
So then I tried to use PG Admin III, and my output:
/usr/bin/pg_restore --host localhost --port 5432 --username "postgres" --dbname "public" --role "postgres" --no-password --section data --data-only --exit-on-error --table accession --schema public --verbose "/home/jeremy/Downloads/xbrldb_SEC_pg_2014-11-02.backup"
pg_restore: [archiver] input file appears to be a text format dump. Please use psql.
Process returned exit code 1.
May I please ask what I need to do to get the databases restored?
Does anyone know what I need to do to get the database updated from 2014-11-02 to the current date?
You should run psql as postgres user, not zcat, so try to use following:
zcat xbrldb_SEC_pg_2014-11-02.pg.gzip | sudo -u postgres psql public
PS pg_restore is an utility, not a PostgreSQL command, that means you should run it from command line, not from psql.
I am trying to run the following file.sql using psql command (Postgresql v8.4):
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW my_view AS
SELECT * FROM MY_ORDER_TABLE;
This is the command that I use:
psql -d myDB -f file.sql
But I get the following error:
psql:file.sql:1: ERROR: syntax error at or near "CREATE"
LINE 1: CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW my_view AS
Any suggestions on how to fix this?