Tom Lane wrote: > "Niederland" <niederland@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > System: the released Postgres 8.0, winXP > > > Using: > > pg_dump --format=t --blobs myDB > DBFile > > pg_restore --create -dbname=crm DBFile > > > Resulted in: > > pg_restore: [archiver] unsupported version (1.13) in file header > > Come to think of it, I'll bet that you cannot use "> DBFile" on Windows > because it ends up opening the archive file in text instead of binary > mode. SetOutput() in pg_backup_archiver.c tries to work around this by > doing > > fn = fileno(stdout); > AH->OF = fdopen(dup(fn), PG_BINARY_W); > > but it wouldn't surprise me in the least to learn that that doesn't work > on Windows. > > Does it work if you use > pg_dump --format=t --blobs -f DBFile myDB > ? Can anyone on pgsql-hackers-win32 think of a way around this? I never considered the distinction of binary/text mode on ">" but I can see it could certainly be an issue. Do we have to start suggesting "-f" for all scripts just so Win32 is OK? -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
