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. > > > -- > Adrian Klaver > adrian.kla...@gmail.com >
