On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > Awesome, thanks! -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
