Re: restore a dump db from tar file

>
> From the docs:
>
> <quote>
> -C
> --create
>
> Begin the output with a command to create the database itself and
> reconnect to the created database. (With a script of this form, it
> doesn't matter which database you connect to before running the script.)
>
> This option is only meaningful for the plain-text format. For the
> archive formats, you can specify the option when you call pg_restore.
> </quote>
>
> So it seems that you can't do it when using a non-text format - you'll
> have to do a plain-text dump, and maybe pipe it to tar if you want that.
>
> Ray.
>

Thanks Ray,

this is also what i found later after my post :-(
everything works well now.