Re: unable to restore from a pgdump file

Thanks, Steve. You are exactly right. pg_restore was the right command
to use!

Janet

On Feb 13, 2010, at 7:36 PM, Janet S Jacobsen wrote:

> > Hi. I am trying to restore a database from a pgdump file, something
> > that I've sucessfully done before.
> >
> > I created a new database cluster, created the database that I want
> > to restore using
> >
> > create database subptf with template = template0;
> >
> > and then I tried to restore the database using
> >
> > ./psql subptf < subptf.pgdump
> >
> > The first part of what I get is
> >
> > ERROR: syntax error at or near "PGDMP"

I'd guess that you created the dump in custom format, rather than sql format.

If so, you'd need to use pg_restore to restore it rather than psql.

Cheers,
Steve