Peter Wilson <petew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Partly the question might be 'what does the error message mean?' - it > almost looks like do_restore doesn't think it has a real file underneath > it, instead something that only provides sequential access. That is certainly what the code thinks; as to what is actually going on, it's pretty hard to guess without a test case to trace through. Is there any chance you could cut your data down to something reasonable to provide a copy of the dump file? regards, tom lane