From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: girish R G peetle <giri.anamika0@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Dump based backup using pipe
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 10:24:44 -0400
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girish R G peetle <giri.anamika0@gmail.com> writes:
> We were using named pipe to read dump data from 'pg_dump -Fc' (compressed
> format) on Windows.
> Restore was failing with 'corrupt dump data' error.
> Later found that pg_dump was performing 'illegal seek' on pipe to write the
> data, which was causing corrupt dump.
That should work. What PG version are you using exactly, and can we see a
full example of what you were trying to do?
There are unsupported cases --- I recall in particular that you can't do
a parallel restore from a pipe --- but you should not be getting "corrupt
file" errors.
regards, tom lane
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