I am trying to load a data base using pg_restore. We are migrating to a new server and I want to see if I can make the load go faster if I load with pg_restore instead of psql. The old server is: CentOS upgraded to 5.4 64bit with the stock PostgreSQL 8.1. The dump file was created with: pg_dump --format=c --file=ec.restore ec where ec is the name of the database. It is encoded SQL_ASCII. I plan on converting to UTF-8 but I can't do that quite yet. The new server is CentOS 5.4 64 bit with PostgreSQL 8.4 installed from the YUM repo on the PostgreSQL site. The restore command is: createdb -E SQL_ASCII -T template0 ec pg_restore -dec -j2 ec.restore I get this error: pg_restore: [custom archiver] dumping a specific TOC data block out of order is not supported without ID on this input stream (fseek required) pg_restore: [archiver] worker process failed: exit code 1 It seems to run if I ommit the -j2 option. (Though as of this moment is has not completed). Is there a known problem with using parallel loading in 8.4 from a file created with an 8.1 database? -- Bryan White -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin