Thread: 8.2.4 pg_restore on WinXP and pipes

I'm using cygwin on WinXP and upgrading from 8.1 to 8.2.4.

Under 8.1, I ran a full backup and stored that as GZIP file.

Under 8.2, I tried to restore using the command:

gunzip -c backup81.gz | pg_restore -v -O -d mydb

This returned an error:  pg_restore: [archiver] did not find magic
string in file header

The above commands work fine under Linux/Unix.

What's interesting is that if I just gunzip the file and run it with
non-pipe input redirection, the same thing works fine (so the data is good):

gunzip backup81.gz
pg_restore -v -O -d mydb < backup81
gzip backup81

It as if the pipe for stdin isn't working, but the other does.  Any
ideas?  I'd prefer to not have to gunzip and then gzip and use the pipe
as this is the common script we use on Linux and aside from this
problem, works well when we run the same scripts under cygwin with WinXP.

Thanks,
David

>>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at  7:23 PM, in message <46CB81EF.7080403@computer.org>,
David Wall <d.wall@computer.org> wrote:
> I'm using cygwin on WinXP
>
> gunzip -c backup81.gz | pg_restore -v -O -d mydb
>
> This returned an error:  pg_restore: [archiver] did not find magic
> string in file header

Out of curiosity, does it do the same thing for?:

gunzip < backup81.gz | pg_restore -v -O -d mydb

-Kevin

Yes it does the same thing:

$ gunzip < mydb.dump.20070819.gz | pg_restore -v -O -d mydb
pg_restore: [archiver] did not find magic string in file header

Most odd since it seems to work just fine if gunzip first and then use:

pg_restore -v -O -d mydb < mydb.dump.20070819

David



Kevin Grittner wrote:

On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at  7:23 PM, in message <46CB81EF.7080403@computer.org>,       

David Wall <d.wall@computer.org> wrote:  

I'm using cygwin on WinXP

gunzip -c backup81.gz | pg_restore -v -O -d mydb

This returned an error:  pg_restore: [archiver] did not find magic 
string in file header   

 
Out of curiosity, does it do the same thing for?:
gunzip < backup81.gz | pg_restore -v -O -d mydb
-Kevin



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