Unless you restore to a database using -d, pg_restore gives you back the
SQL (or a list if you use -l). -f specifies where this should go
instead of to stdout.
Or, as the man page clearly says:
pg_restore can operate in two modes: If a database name is
specified,
the archive is restored directly into the database. Otherwise, a
script
containing the SQL commands necessary to rebuild the database
is cre-
ated (and written to a file or standard output), similar to
the ones
created by the pg_dump plain text format.
does that make it clearer? (Reading the man pages is a Good Thing (tm). )
cheers
andrew
Harald Armin Massa wrote:
> Andrey,
>
> thank you very much! Both informations are correct.
>
> It is indeed possible to restore with using the -F c option on
> pg_dump, and I replaces psql.exe with the one from beta3, and
> everything worked correct.
>
> So it is positive that this information is now on the newer dates in
> the psql-mailinglists to google it up - I threw my hopes away after
> reading "pg_restore is known not to work" within win32-hackers .)))
>
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>
> Usage:
> pg_restore [OPTION]... [FILE]
>
> General options:
> -d, --dbname=NAME output database name
> -f, --file=FILENAME output file name
>
> I struggled some syntax-times with "output file name". What is a
> "output file" supposed to be in connection with "pg_Restore"?
>
> Harald
>
>
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