Re: [GENERAL] pg_restore

[Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Niederland" <niederland(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > System: the released Postgres 8.0, winXP
> 
> > Using:
> > pg_dump --format=t --blobs myDB > DBFile
> > pg_restore --create -dbname=crm DBFile
> 
> > Resulted in:
> > pg_restore: [archiver] unsupported version (1.13) in file header
> 
> Come to think of it, I'll bet that you cannot use "> DBFile" on Windows
> because it ends up opening the archive file in text instead of binary
> mode.  SetOutput() in pg_backup_archiver.c tries to work around this by
> doing
> 
> 	fn = fileno(stdout);
> 	AH->OF = fdopen(dup(fn), PG_BINARY_W);
> 
> but it wouldn't surprise me in the least to learn that that doesn't work
> on Windows.
> 
> Does it work if you use
> 	pg_dump --format=t --blobs -f DBFile myDB
> ?  Can anyone on pgsql-hackers-win32 think of a way around this?

I never considered the distinction of binary/text mode on ">" but I can
see it could certainly be an issue.

Do we have to start suggesting "-f" for all scripts just so Win32 is OK?

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