From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Bob Pawley <rjpawley(at)shaw(dot)ca>, Adrian Klaver <aklaver(at)comcast(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: pg_restore |
Date: | 2007-10-29 04:13:55 |
Message-ID: | 47255E03.9070807@commandprompt.com |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bob Pawley <rjpawley(at)shaw(dot)ca> writes:
>> The latest in the saga -
>> By using - pg_restore -h localhost -d PDW -U postgres aurel.sql
>
>> I get the message - pg_restore: input file does not appear to be a valid
>> archive.
>
> Oh, I just twigged that you are using a plain-SQL dump file (that is,
> you didn't specify -Fc or -Ft to pg_dump). For plain-SQL dumps you
> should not use pg_restore at all; you feed those to psql.
>
> This bites enough newbies that I'm thinking the above message ought to
> inclue a HINT to use psql directly. We haven't previously used hints
> in client-side messages but this seems to need one. Anyone have
> thoughts about how to phrase and format it?
Honestly, I would prefer we just fix pg_restore to be able to use plain
text format. The fact that it doesn't is a serious lack of consistency
within our client side apps. E.g; it is completely counter-intuitive to
require our "client user interface" to be used for restoration when
there is a "pg_restore" sitting in the bin directory.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
> (BTW, I just fixed pg_restore to always mention the file name it
> attempted to open after getting an fopen failure.)
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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