Re: Is pg_restore in 10.6 working?

From: raf <raf(at)raf(dot)org>
To: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Is pg_restore in 10.6 working?
Date: 2018-11-12 22:10:30
Message-ID: 20181112221030.ftnrxugdn37yzdrh@raf.org
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raf wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > David <dlbarron28(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > > I have some experience with different versions of Postgres, but I'm just
> > > getting around to using pg_restore, and it's not working for me at all.
> > > ...
> > > But a matching pg_restore command does nothing.
> > > pg_restore -U postgres -f predata.sql -v
> >
> > This command expects to read from stdin and write to predata.sql, so
> > it's not surprising that it's just sitting there. What you want
> > is something along the lines of
> >
> > pg_restore -U postgres -d dbname -v <predata.sql
> >
> > regards, tom lane
>
> Does that mean there's a bug in the usage message?
>
> pg_restore --help says (admittedly on 9.5 but it's probably the same with 10.6):
>
> Usage:
> pg_restore [OPTION]... [FILE]
>
> ...
>
> If no input file name is supplied, then standard input is used.
>
> To me, that says that a filename on the command line after the options
> will be read as the source of the restore. Only if it is absent would
> stdin be used.
>
> Apologies if the usage message for 10.6 doesn't say the same thing.

Ah, I didn't notice the -f (output) option. Never mind.

cheers,
raf

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