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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Phoenix Kiula <phoenix.kiula@gmail.com>
Cc: PG-General Mailing List <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Dumping/Restoring with constraints?
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:53:22 -0400
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"Phoenix Kiula" <phoenix.kiula@gmail.com> writes:
> Then I tried this:
>   $  pg_restore -h localhost mydb.sql
> This tells me:
>   pg_restore: [archiver] input file does not appear to be a valid archive

No, you were right the first time: just feed the dump script to psql.

			regards, tom lane

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