Category Archives: postgres

How to restore a postgres database with a different owner

Posted on August 22, 2013 by admin

To restore a database and have the tables owned by a different user use the pg_dump command like this: as root user run: su postgres pg_dump -Fc database_name > database_name.dump exit Now you can restore using pg_restore. createuser -P -s … Continue reading →

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Error: pg_config executable not found.

Posted on April 10, 2013 by admin

This bogus error can be frustrating to figure out. I have figured it out a few times over the years and always forget how I solved it because it only occurs on a server where you have never deployed a … Continue reading →

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Use UTF-8 as the default encoding for postgres databases

Posted on March 29, 2013 by admin

To avoid problems with encoding if you forget to change from the default SQL_ASCII when you create a database, I find it is best to set the default to UTF-8 whenever I set up a new server. One less thing … Continue reading →

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Best Practices for shared postgres hosting

Posted on December 27, 2012 by admin

This is what you are looking for: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Shared_Database_Hosting

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