Re: Problem restoring with pg_dump

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: petew(at)yellowhawk(dot)co(dot)uk
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Problem restoring with pg_dump
Date: 2006-12-02 00:51:42
Message-ID: 5070.1165020702@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Wilson <petew(at)yellowhawk(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> Partly the question might be 'what does the error message mean?' - it
> almost looks like do_restore doesn't think it has a real file underneath
> it, instead something that only provides sequential access.

That is certainly what the code thinks; as to what is actually going on,
it's pretty hard to guess without a test case to trace through. Is there
any chance you could cut your data down to something reasonable to
provide a copy of the dump file?

regards, tom lane

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