Basing on the way you did the pg_dump (without the -C option), I think you
should have created the database before you performed the pg_restore,
You can see some examples of database backup/restore in this page:
http://nediam.com.mx/en/tips/backups_pgsql.php
Regards,
Javier
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 10:54:27 +0530, surabhi.ahuja wrote
> i am trying to do :
>
> pg_dump -f op.tar -F t database_name
>
> then i do
>
> dropdb database_name
>
> and then i do pg_restore op.tar
>
> and when i do psql database_name
>
> it says database does not exist.
>
> where am i going wrong?
>
> thanks,
>
> regards
>
> Surabhi
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