Hi, I'm having a problem with restoring a dump that I executed and would appreciate any assistance anyone could give me. I'm a newbie here, so please bear with me.

I'm using Postgre 8.0 Version 1.2.1; I executed the dump using the following command:

pg_dump -h localhost -U postgres -o dbName > C:\Database_Backups\apt_dump_082506.dmp

I got prompted for the password and entered it and it created a file named apt_dump_082506.dmp in my C:\Database_Backups directory.

I then created a new database to load the dump into from the template0:

 createdb -U postgres -T template0 apt_dump_test

I got prompted for the password and entered it and it created the database in Postgres.

Finally, when I try to restore the dump into this new database, I am not getting prompted for the Password, it is simply throwing an error:

 psql -U postgres apt_dump_test < C:\Database_Backups\apt_dump_082506.dmp
 Password:
 psql: FATAL:  password authentication failed for user "postgres"

It is not giving me an opportunity to enter the password at all....

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

Jeanna

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