Re: pg_restore problem!!!

Nick,

> To restore from a plain-text dump file, just pipe it into
> psql like so:
>
> cat [filename] | psql [dbname]

To nit-pick, this is a "useless use of cat".

In UNIX-land, simple input redirection will work much better:

psql [dbname and various options] < [filename]

It's also less to type! :)

I also believe this works in certain Windows operating systems, which is what it appears Mago is using.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Fankhauser [mailto:nickf(at)ontko(dot)com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 1:30 PM
> To: Marvin; pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [ADMIN] pg_restore problem!!!
>
>
> Mago-
>
> pg_restore is used to restore a dump file created in one of
> the non-text
> formats such as tar format.
>
> To restore from a plain-text dump file, just pipe it into
> psql like so:
>
> cat [filename] | psql [dbname]
>
> -Nick
>
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>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> [mailto:pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org]On Behalf Of Marvin
> Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 3:22 PM
> To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: [ADMIN] pg_restore problem!!!
>
>
> I made a back up file with this sentence:
>
> pg_dump -U [superusername] -C -D -f [filename] [dbname]
>
> It seems to work fine. I opened the file and I saw all the commands to
> insert every piece of data and reconstruct my schema. However
> when I try to
> restore that file it gets me the following error:
>
> C:\>pg_restore [filename]
> pg_restore: [archiver] input file does not appear to be a
> valid archive
>
> What I am doing wrong??
> Any ideas??
>
> Thank you in advanced.
>
>
> MAGO
>
>
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