On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> I wrote:
>> Lonni J Friedman <netllama@gmail.com> writes:
>>> [ this doesn't work: ]
>>> $ cat 2011-08-25-1314280801-nightly.out | pg_restore -j2 -U lfriedman -v -d nightly
>>> pg_restore: [custom archiver] cannot reopen stdin
>>> pg_restore: *** aborted because of error
>
>> I agree though that that's not a terribly friendly error message.
>> I thought we had some code in there to complain about non-seekable
>> input files, but it looks like we missed a case.
>
> On closer inspection, I think it's just that nobody thought very hard
> about presenting this limitation in a user-friendly fashion. I've
> committed a patch that will make it fail like this:
>
> pg_restore: [custom archiver] parallel restore from stdin is not supported
>
> immediately upon startup.
>
Awesome, thanks!