input file appears to be a text format dump. Please use psql

Question

I take backup using

pg_dump db_production > postgres_db.dump

and then I copy it to localhost using scp.

Now when I import on my

Answer 1

If you have a full DB dump:

PGPASSWORD="your_pass" psql -h "your_host" -U "your_user" -d "your_database" -f backup.sql

If you have schemas kept separately, however, that won't work. Then you'll need to disable triggers for data insertion, akin to pg_restore --disable-triggers. You can then use this:

cat database_data_only.gzip | gunzip | PGPASSWORD="your_pass" psql -h "your_host" -U root "your_database" -c 'SET session_replication_role = replica;' -f /dev/stdin

On a side note, it is a very unfortunate downside of postgres, I think. The default way of creating a dump in pg_dump is incompatible with pg_restore. With some additional keys, however, it is. WTF?