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I'm facing a issue while importing the dump in my system, i'm getting the error as

" Error: syntax error at or near "" LOCK TABLESDB_NAME` WRITE;"

and exiting with "out of memory"

We had taken back-up from Suse linux and trying to import in Cent OS 6.3.

Any suggestion to fix this issue.

Thanks in Advance,

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Are you using a command like psql dbname < dumpfile.sql to do the import? –  Dondi Michael Stroma Apr 11 '13 at 5:58
    
Yes i'm using that command to import. –  Boopaathy Apr 11 '13 at 6:01

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LOCK TABLES dname WRITE is not a valid PostgreSQL statement. It's a MySQL statement. You can't just take a MySQL dump and restore it to Postgres. You'll need to convert it either manually or find some kind of converter script.

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Thanks for the reply. –  Boopaathy Apr 11 '13 at 6:59

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