Re: How to validate restore of backup?

On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 7:06 AM Vince McMahon <sippingonesandzeros(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have some questions When doing pg_restore of backup of a database to a
> NEW server.
>
> Is there a way to ensure the data integrity is in tact, and user ID and
> access works liked how it was in the old server?
>

pg_restore is just a bunch of CREATE, COPY and ALTER statements, since
pg_restore replays what was generated by pg_dump.

There can be errors, of course. That's why I run "createdb $DB 2>
/dev/null" to ensure that there's something for pg_restore to drop, then
"pg_restore --create --clean --exit-on-error", and *most importantly*,
check the return code!!!

How to properly handle the materialized views when backing up and restoring?
>
> Thanks.
>

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