Re: PG dump and restore

On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 08:28 -0700, Dennis C wrote:
> Greetings;
>
>
> As I've been doing for quite some time, backed up my database as
> such: /opt/local/lib/postgresql84/bin/pg_dump -c -f ./Trading-Access
> -Z 5 Trading-Access
>
>
> But then when I tried restoring it my usual way as
> such: /opt/local/lib/postgresql84/bin/pg_restore -d
> Trading-Access ./Trading-Access
> it causes the error: pg_restore: [archiver] input file does not appear
> to be a valid archive

You don't use pg_restore for plain text dumps which is what you are
doing above. You use psql.

>
>
> So in trying: /opt/local/lib/postgresql84/bin/psql Trading-Access
> < ./Trading-Access
> it causes the error: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0x8b

It means the database you has characters in it that are not UTF8
compliant. You can use iconv to clean it up.

Joshua D. Drake


>
>
> Thanks,

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