David Vargas <davidvargasmoya@gmail.com> writes:
> I need to load a pgdump.sql file into a new Postgres db, but I'm totally not
> being able to do it. I am no programmer, I have installed the latest
> Postgres version for Windows, run the server, open psql. According to the
> pg_dump documentation, I should just run the command "$ psql -d newdb -f
> db.sql" into psql, but when I do it, nothing seems to be happening, I just
> get a new "postgres=#" line right away. I did change the db and file names
> to my names.
It sounds like you're confusing shell commands with psql commands.
This is something you'd type at the shell prompt:
psql -d newdb -f db.sql
That tells the shell to fire up psql, and then psql will connect to
database "newdb" and execute the commands in file "db.sql". But if
you're getting a "postgres=#" prompt then you must have executed psql
interactively, probably via a shell command like
psql newdb
Now, you can do it from here too, but the command that psql takes
to read a file from interactive mode is
\i db.sql
(think "include" for \i).
regards, tom lane