On 26 June 2010 00:59, Dennis C <dcsw...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK well the gunzip seemed to "do the trick," but I don't recall before > having to do anything other than run the pg_restore command. Anyway, thanks > to everyone for all your help! > > > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On 06/25/2010 09:04 AM, Dennis C wrote: >>> >>> It says "Trading-Access: gzip compressed data, from Unix" >>> >>> About the idea of not using pg_restore for these dumps, what I'm still >>> missing is how it's worked for all these years before. Are there now >>> more >>> stringent standards being enforced? >>> >>> >> >> You have restored from these dumps using pg_restore? >> >> The command below says create a plain text file that has commands to clean >> database objects before recreating and store text in file ./Trading-Access >> using gzip compression at level 5: >> >> /opt/local/lib/postgresql84/bin/pg_dump -c -f ./Trading-Access -Z 5 >> Trading-Access >> >> To restore I would think you need to gunzip ./Trading-Access and then feed >> the file to psql. >> >>
It appears that if you don't specify the file format, but you specify compression, it uses plain format but then gzips it up. Thom -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
