Re: unable to restore from a pgdump file

On Feb 13, 2010, at 7:36 PM, Janet S Jacobsen wrote:

> Hi.  I am trying to restore a database from a pgdump file, something
> that I've sucessfully done before.
>
> I created a new database cluster, created the database that I want
> to restore using
>
> create database subptf with template = template0;
>
> and then I tried to restore the database using
>
> ./psql subptf < subptf.pgdump
>
> The first part of what I get is
>
> ERROR:  syntax error at or near "PGDMP"

I'd guess that you created the dump in custom format, rather than sql format.

If so, you'd need to use pg_restore to restore it rather than psql.

Cheers,
  Steve