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Re: unable to restore from a pgdump file

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Thanks, Steve.  You are exactly right.  pg_restore was the right command
to use!

Janet


On Feb 13, 2010, at 7:36 PM, Janet S Jacobsen wrote:

> > Hi.  I am trying to restore a database from a pgdump file, something
> > that I've sucessfully done before.  
> > 
> > I created a new database cluster, created the database that I want
> > to restore using
> > 
> > create database subptf with template = template0;
> > 
> > and then I tried to restore the database using
> > 
> > ./psql subptf < subptf.pgdump
> > 
> > The first part of what I get is
> > 
> > ERROR:  syntax error at or near "PGDMP"

I'd guess that you created the dump in custom format, rather than sql format.

If so, you'd need to use pg_restore to restore it rather than psql.

Cheers,
  Steve



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