Sounds like an OS bug.
> Just upgraded to 6.4.2 from 6.3.2 and I've got a bit of a problem.
>
> Compiled, installed, regressed(?) all went fine. Come to load up the old
> datbases, and it appears that \. is not being recognised as end-of-input
> in the database dump file (I did a pg_dumpall -z, if that helps).
>
> For example, I have some data as follows, which should be read in up to
> the \. line, but the \. lines appears to not be recognised/ handled,
> causing the following lines to be treated as data, which leads to the
> commands not being executed...
>
>
> COPY stats FROM stdin;
> 11.5 2.5 07-11-1998
> 12 3 07-16-1998
> 12 3 07-19-1998
> 14 4 07-30-1998
> 14 4 08-06-1998
> 15 4.5 08-15-1998
> 15 4.5 08-24-1998
> 16.5 5 08-30-1998
> 18.5 5 09-13-1998
> 20 5.5 09-20-1998
> 23 6 10-05-1998
> \.
> \connect template1 simon
> create database members;
>
> This \connect line is being treated as data, as is the create.. line,
> which means the members database is not created.
>
> Apart from separating out all the data (COPY blocks) from the command
> lines, and running two or more separate routines to update the data, is
> there anything I can do?
>
>
> Si.
>
>
> --
> "Is it farther to New York or by plane?"
>
> Simon Drabble madlather@syspac.com
>
>
>
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