Since posgres 13 there's the option to do a FORCE when dropping a database
(so it disconnects current users) Documentation here:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-dropdatabase.html
I am currently using dir format for the output
pg_dump -d "bdname" -F d -j 4 -v -f /tmp/dir
And restoring the database with
pg_restore -d postgres -C -c --exit-on-error -F d -j 3 -v /tmp/dir
Having an option to add the FORCE option to either the generated dump by
pg_dump, or in the pg_restore would be very useful when restoring the
databases to another servers so it would avoid having to do scripting.
In my specific case I am using this to refresh periodically a development
environment with data from production servers for a small database (~200M).
Thanks,
Joan