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On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Tena Sakai <sakaitena@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I am a bit troubled by pg_dump and pg_restore. My platform is
> redhat linux, Del 64 bit hardware, running postgres 8.3.7.
> I have a database named canon and I want to move a schema full of
> tables from canon to a new database named musket. The schema I
> am interested in is called tsakai. Here's what I have done:
>
> $ env | grep PG
> PGUSER=postgres
> PGDATABASE=canon
> PGHOST=localhost
> PGDATA=/usr/local/pgsql/data
> $
> $ pg_dump -n tsakai > canon_tsakai.sql
> $
> $ echo $?
> 0
> $
> $ pg_restore -l canon_tsakai.sql
> pg_restore: [archiver] input file does not appear to be a valid archive
> $
> $ pg_restore -d musket canon_tsakai.sql
> pg_restore: [archiver] input file does not appear to be a valid archive
>
> Can someone please tell me (1) if there is anything wrong with my invocation
> of pd_dump? (I want to generate a file pd_restore can use to feed to
> musket database.) (2) Why pg_restore wouldn't give me listing? And (3)
> why the second pg_restore command is upset?
pg_restore expects custom format from pg_dump. For plain sql files, use psql:
psql mydb -f mysql.sql