David <dlbarron28@gmail.com> writes:
> I have some experience with different versions of Postgres, but I'm just
> getting around to using pg_restore, and it's not working for me at all.
> ...
> But a matching pg_restore command does nothing.
> pg_restore -U postgres -f predata.sql -v
This command expects to read from stdin and write to predata.sql, so
it's not surprising that it's just sitting there. What you want
is something along the lines of
pg_restore -U postgres -d dbname -v <predata.sql
regards, tom lane