You are exactly correct! I knew I was doing something silly. Thank you
very much.
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 14:40, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 21:57, Timothy Grant wrote:
> > I'm sure I'm doing something completely stupid, and it's really not too
> > important as I don't have any data in this database yet, but I can't get
> > a file dumped with pg_dump under 7.2.3 to restore with pg_restore in
> > 7.3.
> >
> > (tjg@reepicheep%) pg_restore
> > tjg.db_dump ~
> > pg_restore: [archiver] input file does not appear to be a valid archive
> >
> > So, what silly thing am I not doing right?
>
> I wonder how you created it?
>
> If you said: "pg_dump >dumpfile", you can't use pg_restore. You should
> use "psql <dumpfile"
>
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> Oliver Elphick Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
> Isle of Wight, UK http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver
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> "Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your
> heart, all ye that hope in the LORD."
> Psalms 31:24
>
>
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Stand Fast,
tjg.
Timothy Grant
www.craigelachie.org