Unable to restore pg_dump backup

Question

I'm trying to restore backup from Postgres 9.1.1, which was created by:

pg_dump mydb > backup.sql

restore on Postgres 9.1.9

psql -d mydb -f backup.sql

I'm getting this error:

psql:datasets.sql:278537: invalid command \.
psql:datasets.sql:278544: ERROR:  syntax error at or near "1"
LINE 1: 1 4446 49 253.412262 239.618317 0 211.54303 100.482948 197.1...

The \. is part of COPY command, I guess it should be compatible between Postgres 9 versions, or it's not?

COPY data_136 (id, in_1, in_2, in_3, in_4, out_1) FROM stdin;
1       5.0999999       3.5     1.39999998      0.200000003     Iris-setosa
2       4.9000001       3       1.39999998      0.200000003     Iris-setosa
--- few more line cutted
150     5.9000001       3       5.0999999       1.79999995      Iris-virginica
\.

Answer 1

The problem was caused by earlier error:

ERROR:  permission denied for schema pg_catalog

I was importing the under user who has all privileges to databases, anyway running the import under postgres user solved the issue.

Answer 2

This error occurred to me for the same reason: I was logged in as a user with insufficient permissions.

Just for completeness I'll mention how you can do the restoring whilst specifying the user performing the action:

psql -U postgres -d mydb -f backup.sql