Re: pg_restore to a port where nobody is listening?

It does

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> On 21 Dec 2016, at 18:40, Andreas Kretschmer <andreas(at)a-kretschmer(dot)de> wrote:
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>> Am 21.12.2016 um 18:22 schrieb Daniel Westermann:
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>> Now I try to import into 9.6.1 => the instance is not running but the environment is set:
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>> postgres(at)pgbox:/home/postgres/ [PG961] netstat -na | grep 5439
>> postgres(at)pgbox:/home/postgres/ [PG961] echo $PGPORT
>> 5439
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>> postgres(at)pgbox:/home/postgres/ [PG961] pg_restore -V
>> pg_restore (PostgreSQL) 9.6.1
>> postgres(at)pgbox:/home/postgres/ [PG961] pg_restore -h localhost -p 5439 -F d -C -j 2 /var/tmp/exp/
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>> This runs fine but where does it connect to? Nothing is listening on port 5439.
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> No, that can't run.
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> Andreas