Use pg_restore to restore from a newer version of PostgreSQL

Question

I have a (production) DB server running PostgreSQL v9.0 and a development machine running PostgreSQL v8.4. I would like to take a dump of the production DB and use it on the

Answer 1

pg_restore is only for restoring dumps taken in the "custom" format.

If you do a "plain text" dump you have to use psql to run the generated SQL script:

psql -f nvdls.db dbname username