girish R G peetle <giri.anamika0@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > We were using named pipe to read dump data from 'pg_dump -Fc' (compressed > format) on Windows. > Restore was failing with 'corrupt dump data' error. > Later found that pg_dump was performing 'illegal seek' on pipe to write the > data, which was causing corrupt dump. That should work. What PG version are you using exactly, and can we see a full example of what you were trying to do? There are unsupported cases --- I recall in particular that you can't do a parallel restore from a pipe --- but you should not be getting "corrupt file" errors. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin