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From: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>
To: Curtis Mortensen <shakiro2@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: pg_restore error
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 08:50:11 +1000
Message-ID: <12768.1031352611@nemeton.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <shakiro2@yahoo.com> <CPECIDGAKENJOOCGOHGJIEOACBAA.shakiro2@yahoo.com>


Curtis Mortensen asked:

> When I try to move the dump to the new database
> (pg_restore [databasenam2] < backup.dump) it gives me this error:
> 
> pg_restore: [archiver] could not open input file: No such file or directory

To specify the database name to restore to, you want the --dbname option:

$ pg_restore --dbname=databasenam2 < backup.dump

Regards,

Giles



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