Re: pg_restore: warning: invalid creation date in header

Tom, it's a directory format dump, what file would make the most sense to
run oc on? Or does this not work w/a directory?

On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 8:57 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> I wrote:
> > Hmm. Looking at the code for that, it knows nothing of timezones.
> > It's complaining that mktime() failed, which perhaps is because of
> > bad data in the archive header ... but I'm betting it has something
> > to do with failing to initialize all the fields of the struct tm
> > it passes.
>
> After reading the mktime man page, I take that back --- it's not
> supposed to consider the passed-in values of the tm_wday and tm_yday
> fields. The only documented reason for mktime to fail is if the
> supplied values map to something outside the range of time_t,
> which seems a tad unlikely. It'd be interesting perhaps to see
> the raw header of your dump file, along the lines of
> "od -c dumpfile | head".
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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