pg_restore: [compress_io] could not uncompress data: invalid code lengths set

Question

I've had problems to execute pg_restorecommand in Mac. It's returning this error:

pg_restore: [compress_io] could not uncompress data: invalid code lengths set

I'm using postgres 9.6.2.

Answer 1

That error message comes from the zlib library used by PostgreSQL for compression.

I'd say that the file probably got corrupted (ASCII file transfer?).