I'm not following your question. The pre-data and post-data sections each go to an individual file, but the data section goes to a directory. I can restore the files using psql, but it is the restore of the directory that is hanging.
On 11/12/18 11:44 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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
>
In this case, does the "General options" -f make sense? restoring to a file?