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[Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>]

What is the file format? Is it a plain text Postgres dump or has it been
created using pg_dump as a compressed dump?

You are right, as you will not be able to (easily) restore a version of the
database created with Postgres 9 to postgres 8.4. You should be able to
restore from a plain text dump however.



On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying this on my server:
> pg_restore -i -d dhis2_demo -v dhis2demo.backup
>
> but all I get is this:
> pg_restore: [archiver] input file does not appear to be a valid archive
>
> Is this likely to be because I still have 8.4 on the server? If so, any
> tips on upgrading (I have lots of data on the server)?
>
> Knut
>
>
>
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