At a glance, you may need gunzip -c.
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Ian.
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Tena Sakai <tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I installed a postgres 8.4.4 onto a centos 5.5 machine and attempted to
> restore
> data from a file made by pg_dumpall. It didn’t work, it seems. What I did
> was to
> follow the instruction given in INSTALL file which comes with the source
> distribution.
> The section Getting Started gives a list and I did all but #5 (createdb
> testdb + psql testdb).
> Instead of #5, I ran the command below:
> gunzip ..../dumpall20100822.0.gz | /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql -f –
> postgres
> Which terminated with exit status 0.
>
> But when I look at pg_stat_database I don’t see the database I expected.
> Can somebody please tell me why this didn’t work? Also, what must I do to
> successfully
> restore the database?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tena Sakai
> tsakai@gallo.ucsf.edu