Re: Upgrading 8.2 to 8.4: pg_restore: did not find magic string in file header\n - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 17:45 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com> writes:
> > Now I understand. I wonder if this would be a good time to ask about
> > whether pg_restore could be made to work with plain-text files:)
>
> Not in any particularly useful way --- the plain text dump wouldn't
> really support selective restore, etc etc.

It would however lend to consistency in our user interface. It is really
quite silly that pg_restore can't restore the default backup method.

JD

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