Re: pg_restore valid archive

So I used:

psql mydb < pgmydb

and it worked like a charm.

What's the deal with pg_restore? Is it just noise?  The
docs show it working.  Not a big deal, but I can't get it
to work.

Thanks.

eel@javabox.com (Eel) wrote in message news:<a62a408.0202151814.15a4dcc@posting.google.com>...
> Hi,
>   I'm trying to upgrade to 7.2 from 7.0.  I first tried pg_dump from
> 7.0 and then pg_restore.  It gave me "input file does not appear to be
> a valid archive". I did a bit of research and found that versions of
> pg_dump/restore are incompatible, so I pg_dumped it from the 7.2
> pg_dump.  It still gives me the same error.  What do I need for a
> valid archive?  I'm doing something like:
>
> pg_dump -h oldmachine mydb > pgmydb
>
> None of the following work.
> pg_restore pgmydb
> pg_restore -d mydb pgmydb
> pg_restore -d mydb -f pgmydb
>
> Is there any trick to doing this?  I can't even dump/restore a simple
> database on the new machine.
>
> Thanks!