On 24 April 2012 16:17, Willy-Bas Loos <willybas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some 6 years ago, i had a bad experience with a custom dump. It wouldn't
> restore and my data was lost.
What was the experience? Is it possible you had specified a
compression level without the format set to custom? That would result
in a plain text output within a gzip file, which would then error out
if you tried to restore it with pg_restore, but would be perfectly
valid if you passed the uncompressed output directly into psql.
How many times had you experienced the problem at the time? Was is
repeatedly or just the one time?
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Thom