Karl Wright <kwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > But, I get the following error: > pg_restore: [tar archiver] could not find header for file toc.dat in tar > archive Could we see "pg_restore -l" output for that dump file? This looks a bit like some bugs we've seen before, eg, http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2006-10/msg00263.php but the particular cause of that one wouldn't apply to a 7.4 dump file. regards, tom lane