| 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: | Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, Andreas Laggner <andreas(dot)laggner(at)vti(dot)bund(dot)de> |
| Subject: | Re: Upgrading 8.2 to 8.4: pg_restore: did not find magic string in file header\n |
| Date: | 2010-11-19 22:55:50 |
| Message-ID: | 1290207350.10258.9250.camel@jd-desktop |
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On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 17:45 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Now I understand. I wonder if this would be a good time to ask about
> > whether pg_restore could be made to work with plain-text files:)
>
> Not in any particularly useful way --- the plain text dump wouldn't
> really support selective restore, etc etc.
It would however lend to consistency in our user interface. It is really
quite silly that pg_restore can't restore the default backup method.
JD
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