Ben Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to restore a tar dump of postgresql 7.2 databases into a 7.3 > server. I have two databases (db1,db2) both containing binary data. The > tar was dumped with the following command:
> pg_dump -C -b -F t -i db1.tar db1 > The first one was restored OK. But on the second one, > pg_restore -d db2 db2.tar > gives me this error. I'm fairly suspicious of the -i switch you are using. As a general rule, you should NEVER use -i unless you have been told to by someone who knows exactly what they are doing. That safety check is there for a reason. Other than that, though, the only thought that comes to mind is that you may be confused about the use of -C. IIRC, specifying it at dump time is useless --- it needs to be given to pg_restore instead. You have evidently got a non-empty (already restored into?) target database and I think you are expecting pg_restore to clean it out, which it will not with these command line options. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings