pg_restore duplicate key and invalid command errors

Question

Postgres version :

PostgreSQL 9.2.4 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-3), 64-bit

We transfer from one server to another (with better cpu an ram) our system using vm converter and when I try to backup database have an error :

pg_dump: reading schemas 
pg_dump: reading user-defined tables 
pg_dump: reading extensions 
pg_dump: reading user-defined functions 
pg_dump: reading user-defined types 
pg_dump: reading procedural languages 
pg_dump: reading user-defined aggregate functions 
pg_dump: reading user-defined operators 
pg_dump: reading user-defined operator classes 
pg_dump: reading user-defined operator families 
pg_dump: reading user-defined text search parsers 
pg_dump: reading user-defined text search templates 
pg_dump: reading user-defined text search dictionaries 
pg_dump: reading user-defined text search configurations 
pg_dump: reading user-defined foreign-data wrappers 
pg_dump: reading user-defined foreign servers 
pg_dump: reading default privileges 
pg_dump: reading user-defined collations 
pg_dump: reading user-defined conversions 
pg_dump: reading type casts 
pg_dump: reading table inheritance information 
pg_dump: reading rewrite rules 
pg_dump: finding extension members 
pg_dump: finding inheritance relationships 
pg_dump: reading column info for interesting tables 
pg_dump: finding the columns and types of table "account_account" 
pg_dump: [archiver (db)] query failed: ERROR:  missing chunk number 0 for toast value 3297740 in pg_toast_2619 
pg_dump: [archiver (db)] query was: SELECT a.attnum, a.attname, a.atttypmod, a.attstattarget, a.attstorage, t.typstorage, a.attnotnull, a.atthasdef, a.attisdropped, a.attlen, a.attalign, a.attislocal, pg_catalog.format_type(t.oid,a.atttypmod) AS atttypname, array_to_string(a.attoptions, ', ') AS attoptions, CASE WHEN a.attcollation <> t.typcollation THEN a.attcollation ELSE 0 END AS attcollation, pg_catalog.array_to_string(ARRAY(SELECT pg_catalog.quote_ident(option_name) || ' ' || pg_catalog.quote_literal(option_value) FROM pg_catalog.pg_options_to_table(attfdwoptions) ORDER BY option_name), E', 
    ') AS attfdwoptions FROM pg_catalog.pg_attribute a LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_type t ON a.atttypid = t.oid WHERE a.attrelid = '274619'::pg_catalog.oid AND a.attnum > 0::pg_catalog.int2 ORDER BY a.attrelid, a.attnum

I solve it using reindexdb ,after I try pg_dump -U postgres my_db > /home/mydb.backup and it was successfull. Then I try to restore database to ensure that backup is valid

psql -U postgres new_db < /home/mydb.backup

And have an errors :

ERROR : extra data after last expected column 
Context: COPY tbl1, line1: "1 2013-12-02 2013-12-02  9387.74  9775.46211485490864940000"   6180.9500000000   80262 ...." 
ERROR : column "id" of relation "tbl1" does not exists 
invalid command \N 
invalid command \N 
invalid command \N 
..... 
invalid command \N 
invalid command \. 
ERROR:  syntax error at or near "87685" 
LINE 1: 87685 SO87690 1 170468 2015-05-30 2015 05 30 
        ^ 
invalid command \. 

ERROR:  duplicate key value violates unique constraint "ir_act_client_pkey" 
DETAIL:  Key (id)=(103) already exists. 
CONTEXT:  COPY ir_act_client, line 21: "" 
ERROR:  duplicate key value violates unique constraint "ir_act_report_xml_pkey" 
DETAIL:  Key (id)=(733) already exists. 
CONTEXT:  COPY ir_act_report_xml, line 59: "" 
ERROR:  duplicate key value violates unique constraint "ir_act_server_pkey" 
DETAIL:  Key (id)=(703) already exists. 
CONTEXT:  COPY ir_act_server, line 6: "" 
ERROR:  duplicate key value violates unique constraint "ir_act_window_pkey" 
DETAIL:  Key (id)=(1) already exists. 
CONTEXT:  COPY ir_act_window, line 235: "334    Last Product Inventories        ir.actions.act_window   \N      1       2013-07-03 10:39:48.399509  2013-12-16 16:38:..." 
ERROR:  duplicate key value violates unique constraint "ir_act_window_group_rel_act_id_gid_key" 
DETAIL:  Key (act_id, gid)=(76, 1) already exists. 
CONTEXT:  COPY ir_act_window_group_rel, line 14: "" 
ERROR:  duplicate key value violates unique constraint "ir_act_window_view_pkey" 
DETAIL:  Key (id)=(100) already exists. 
CONTEXT:  COPY ir_act_window_view, line 88: ""

How to solve it ?

Answer 1

When you are exporting the data use pg_dump with the -Fc option.

Output a custom-format archive suitable for input into pg_restore. Together with the directory output format, this is the most flexible output format in that it allows manual selection and reordering of archived items during restore. This format is also compressed by default.

The compact format makes it easier to transfer between servers and depending on your IO load might even be faster to dump and restore as well.

If you intend to import the data into a database that already contains some tables complications are inevitable. You can overcome this situation by dumping with the --clean option.