Re: Correct pg_dumpall Syntax

From: Sam Mason <sam(at)samason(dot)me(dot)uk>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Correct pg_dumpall Syntax
Date: 2008-06-18 17:49:15
Message-ID: 20080618174915.GL2572@frubble.xen.chris-lamb.co.uk
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:42:51AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> [rshepard(at)salmo /usr4/postgres-backups]$ pg_restore -U postgres < pg814data.sql
> pg_restore: [archiver] input file does not appear to be a valid archive
>
> But it was created using the 8.3.3 pg_dumpall in /usr/bin/.

pgdumpall (and pgdump by default) will produce output in SQL format.
Restoring is just a simple matter of:

psql dbname -f pg814data.sql

Hope that helps!

Sam

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