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

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Upgrading 8.2 to 8.4: pg_restore: did not find magic string in file header\n
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Msg-id 18239.1290208396@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Upgrading 8.2 to 8.4: pg_restore: did not find magic string in file header\n  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 17:45 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> 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.

I don't think it would be "consistent" for pg_restore to run, but have
most of its useful switches either be ignored or cause failures.

            regards, tom lane

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