Ya, I aborted it and am successfully restoring the DB using psql. It's sure taking up cycles and disk space now :-) -dave -----Original Message----- From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 11:52 AM To: Gauthier, Dave Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [GENERAL] pg_restore stalled ??? "Gauthier, Dave" <dave.gauthier@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm attempting to restore in v8.3.4 using pg_restore running under > v8.3.4 using... > pg_restore -f mydb.pgdump -i -C > It doesn;t appear to be doing anything. It's waiting for an archive to show up on stdin :-( -f is the *output* file name for pg_restore. Also, you're lacking any switches here specifying a database to connect to. regards, tom lane