From: | raf <raf(at)raf(dot)org> |
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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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