David <dlbarron28@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I have some experience with different versions of Postgres, but I'm just > getting around to using pg_restore, and it's not working for me at all. > ... > But a matching pg_restore command does nothing. > pg_restore -U postgres -f predata.sql -v This command expects to read from stdin and write to predata.sql, so it's not surprising that it's just sitting there. What you want is something along the lines of pg_restore -U postgres -d dbname -v <predata.sql regards, tom lane