At a glance, you may need gunzip -c. -- Ian. On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Tena Sakai <tsakai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > I installed a postgres 8.4.4 onto a centos 5.5 machine and attempted to > restore > data from a file made by pg_dumpall. It didn’t work, it seems. What I did > was to > follow the instruction given in INSTALL file which comes with the source > distribution. > The section Getting Started gives a list and I did all but #5 (createdb > testdb + psql testdb). > Instead of #5, I ran the command below: > gunzip ..../dumpall20100822.0.gz | /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql -f – > postgres > Which terminated with exit status 0. > > But when I look at pg_stat_database I don’t see the database I expected. > Can somebody please tell me why this didn’t work? Also, what must I do to > successfully > restore the database? > > Thank you in advance. > > Regards, > > Tena Sakai > tsakai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
