Re: Is pg_restore in 10.6 working?

On 11/12/18 11:44 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> David <dlbarron28@gmail.com> 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
>

In this case, does the "General options" -f make sense? restoring to a file?