Restoring a Dump with psql on Windows Fails -Password Cannot Be Entered (?)

From: "Schon, Gregor" <Gregor(dot)Schon(at)ids-scheer(dot)com>
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Subject: Restoring a Dump with psql on Windows Fails -Password Cannot Be Entered (?)
Date: 2005-03-09 16:51:54
Message-ID: 97B9A9BADAB0624D87957A6193F5ED3941D673@049SBEVS2.me.corp.ids-scheer.com
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Hello

I try to restore a dump of a PostgreSQL 7.4 db into PostgrSQL 8.0.1 on
Windows XP SP1
When using pgadmin III it asks for a *.backup file which I do not have
and the OK button is greyed out when selecting the dump file - thus this
does not work.

When using psql as I do it on Linux (Suse 9.0) successfully I cannot
enter the password.
In a command prompt of Windows I get the following effect:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
C:\Programme\PostgreSQL\8.0\bin>psql phprvitadb <
C:\Programme\PostgreSQL\8.0\bin\phprvitadb200503082100.dump -U gsc
Passwort:
psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "gsc"

C:\Programme\PostgreSQL\8.0\bin>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

It looks that I did not enter the correct password but actually the
system did not allow me to enter a password. The 2 lines:
Passwort:
psql: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "gsc"
are written in one step.

Is that a bug? I heard that Windows and Unix have different "New Line"
handling (LF / CR) - that could be related to the effect.
I could provide the password in the command line directly but there is
no '-pw' parameter or something similar for psql.

Any ideas what I could do to get the dump into the database? A little
help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Gregor

Remark 1: The original Linux based 7.4 database is still running and
available - Maybe I have to work with some kind of binary backup
instead.
Remark 2: The postgreSQL database runs absolutly stable ( as a php
backend) on Linux for more than 2 years - it is wonderful software.

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