Rob Sargent <robjsargent@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 11/12/18 12:39 PM, David wrote: >> I'm not following your question. The pre-data and post-data sections >> each go to an individual file, but the data section goes to a >> directory. I can restore the files using psql, but it is the restore >> of the directory that is hanging. The other bit that I think David is missing is that pg_dump's default output format is a plain-text SQL script, which is meant to be fed to psql not pg_restore. To get something that pg_restore can work with, you need to specify one of the non-text dump formats (typically, you'd use -Fc or -Fd). The situation in which you'd want to use "pg_restore -f" is if you want to reconstruct a plain-text SQL script from one of the non-text dump formats, rather than just restoring directly into a database. regards, tom lane
