pg_restore: [compress_io] could not uncompress data: invalid bit length repeat
Thanks
Girish
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
girish R G peetle <giri.anamika0@gmail.com> writes: > We were using named pipe to read dump data from 'pg_dump -Fc' (compressed > format) on Windows. > Restore was failing with 'corrupt dump data' error. > Later found that pg_dump was performing 'illegal seek' on pipe to write the > data, which was causing corrupt dump.
That should work. What PG version are you using exactly, and can we see a full example of what you were trying to do?
There are unsupported cases --- I recall in particular that you can't do a parallel restore from a pipe --- but you should not be getting "corrupt file" errors.