Re: Errors recovering database

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Henrique_Te=F3filo?= <henriquetft@gmail.com> writes:
> Dumping:
> pg_dump -p -U'postgres' -C -f ./dumpbkp mydatabase
> tar -cvzf dumpbkp.tar.gz dumpbkp

> Restoring:
> cat dumpbkp.tar.gz | gunzip | psql -U'postgres'

AFAICS that ought not work at all, not even a little bit.  You've
wrapped the dump script into a tar archive, and then not unwrapped it.

The pg_dump argument list seems a bit less than kosher, as well ...
doesn't -p require an argument?

            regards, tom lane