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On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:42 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:


> For pg_dumpall, you shouldn't even have created the
> databases, just start from a virgin installation.



Should I have CREATEd the db at least without the table structure?

I dropped the database locally. Entirely. Gone.

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

What gives?