Re: pg_restore problem

[Harco de Hilster <Harco(dot)de(dot)Hilster(at)ATConsultancy(dot)nl>]

I had similar problems with the tar format. 3 smaller databases worked, 
the biggest did not. Switching to -Fc fixed it for me.

Sorry for not reporting this.

Harco

Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Andreasen <michael(at)dunlops(dot)com> writes:
>   
> > pg_dump -Ft $db | bzip2 > $db.dump.tbz
> > ...
> > pg_restore: [tar archiver] could not find header for file 3765.dat in 
> > tar archive
> >     
>
> Does it work better if you use -Fc format?  There was a similar report
> recently, which makes me think the tar-format code has got some kind
> of problem, but without a test case it's hard to look into it.
>
> 			regards, tom lane
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