The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 1503 Logged by: Yavuz Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 8.0.1 Operating system: windows 2000 sp4 Description: pg_restore cannot restore a backup Details:
firstly i try a backup on Fedore Linux core2 with 8.0.1 pg_dump -f backup.tar -Ft -U postgres mydb and and restore it with createdb mydb2 -U postgres pg_restore -d mydb2 backup.tar -U postgres it works very fine and i try this commands on win2000 service pack4 with postgresql 8.0.1 pg_dump -f backup.tar -Ft -U postgres mydb works well and i can see the listing with pg_restore -l backup.tar and a create a database to restore with createdb mydb2 -U postgres its ok but when i try pg_restore -d mydb2 backup.tar -U postgres i have an error like "pg_restore:[archiver(db)] connection to database "mydb2" failed: FATAL : password authentication failed for user "postgres"" i check my password on psql , pg_dump and other programs there is no problem ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match