| From: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
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| To: | Jeremy Speer <jspeer(at)pobox(dot)com> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Not a valid archive? - newbie question |
| Date: | 2003-06-13 17:32:15 |
| Message-ID: | 20030613102930.H65514-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com |
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On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Jeremy Speer wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Newbie here.... with hopefully a newbie question.
>
> I'm running pg 7.2.3 on RedHat 8... so far with tremendous success.
>
> I did a pg_dump of a fairly large DB sometime ago... and now i'm trying
> to pg_restore it.
>
> I get a reponse saying "does not appear to be a valid archive"
>
> I can view the dump in a text editor.... it *seems* fine and intact.
>
> Any suggestions?
If you did a text format pg_dump (ie no -F option) then you use psql to
restore it. pg_restore is for the special archive file formats.
> Responses of RTFM are welcome if you reference an M and page number :-)
In this case I think it's in the current pg_dump man page. I'd guess it's
in 7.2's as well, but I don't have a system to check.
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