Re: BUG #13438: Restore using GUI client - Data Not Loading

cathi(dot)soule(at)roberthalf(dot)com writes:
> Hello, I am trying to backup / restore a table named 'user' using Postgres
> GUI/client. The restore does not load data. I suspect the issue may be the
> tablename 'user' (not my table). The backup msgs are listed below. My other
> successful restores had 2 additional msgs (pg_restore: processing data for
> table "skillc" pg_restore: setting owner and privileges for TABLE DATA
> skillc). Defaults were used on backup and restore. Does anyone know how to
> resolve? Thank you for any help!

> C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/9.4/bin\pg_restore.exe --host localhost --port
> 5432 --username "postgres" --dbname "d27qs7oej1f23" --no-password
> --data-only --table \"user\" --schema xyz1 --verbose "E:\20150611 Mig32QA
> user4.backup"
> pg_restore: connecting to database for restore
> Process returned exit code 0.

I'm not real sure what backslashes do in the Windows command interpreter,
but I bet the problem is that what pg_restore is getting as the argument
of the --table switch is not just user but something with quote marks
and/or backslashes in it, and that's not matching any table name it can
find in the file so it doesn't restore anything.

Try leaving off all that decoration. "user" is not a keyword as far
as the shell is concerned, so it doesn't really need quoting in this
context.

regards, tom lane