I wrote: > Lonni J Friedman <netllama@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> [ this doesn't work: ] >> $ cat 2011-08-25-1314280801-nightly.out | pg_restore -j2 -U lfriedman -v -d nightly >> pg_restore: [custom archiver] cannot reopen stdin >> pg_restore: *** aborted because of error > I agree though that that's not a terribly friendly error message. > I thought we had some code in there to complain about non-seekable > input files, but it looks like we missed a case. On closer inspection, I think it's just that nobody thought very hard about presenting this limitation in a user-friendly fashion. I've committed a patch that will make it fail like this: pg_restore: [custom archiver] parallel restore from stdin is not supported immediately upon startup. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
