On 11/12/18 2:06 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com> writes:
>> On 11/12/18 12:39 PM, David wrote:
>>> 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.
> The other bit that I think David is missing is that pg_dump's default
> output format is a plain-text SQL script, which is meant to be fed to
> psql not pg_restore. To get something that pg_restore can work with,
> you need to specify one of the non-text dump formats (typically, you'd
> use -Fc or -Fd).
>
> The situation in which you'd want to use "pg_restore -f" is if you
> want to reconstruct a plain-text SQL script from one of the non-text
> dump formats, rather than just restoring directly into a database.
>
> regards, tom lane
Roger that. Thank you.