Please find enclosed a patch, per Dennis Bjrklund, that uses -f

for input files rather than <.  This makes error messages, &c. more
expressive.

David Fetter

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml
index b2309262e4a075db4d6cc90e2724a1a16abed1fa..02d07f6c2f4f0617be303d6a4ff6ea83869287fc 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
 
  Backup and Restore
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ pg_dumpall > outfile
 
     The resulting dump can be restored with psql:
 
-psql template1 < infile
+psql -f infile template1
 
     (Actually, you can specify any existing database name to start from,
     but if you are reloading in an empty cluster then template1
@@ -1210,7 +1210,7 @@ cd ~/postgresql-&version;
 gmake install
 initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
 postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
-psql template1 < backup
+psql -f backup template1
 
 
    See  about ways to start and stop the