psql invalid command \N while restore sql

Question

I\'m trying to restore my dump file, but it caused an error:

psql:psit.sql:27485: invalid command \\N

Is there a solution? I searched, but

Answer 1

In my recent experience, it's possible to get this error when the real problem has nothing to do with escape characters or newlines. In my case, I had created a dump from database A with
pg_dump -a -t table_name > dump.sql
and was trying to restore it to database B with
psql < dump.sql (after updating the proper env vars, of course)
What I finally figured out was that the dump, though it was data-only (the -a option, so that the table structure isn't explicitly part of the dump), was schema-specific. That meant that without manually modifying the dump, I couldn't use a dump generated from schema1.table_name to populate schema2.table_name. Manually modifying the dump was easy, the schema is specified in the first 15 lines or so.