Re: pg_restore and the -C flag

Thanks, Keith. I reread the documentation, and I guess that earlier, I wasn’t awake enough to comprehend it. It’s all working now.

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> On Jul 17, 2019, at 9:19 AM, Keith <keith(at)keithf4(dot)com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 8:43 AM John Scalia <jayknowsunix(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
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>> From what I’m reading on www.postgresql.org, the -C option for pg_restore is supposed to create the database before restoring into it, but here’s my command line:
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>> pg_restore -p 5432 -C -d restored_db recovery.dmp
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>> The dmp file was created with pg_dump using
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>> pg_dump -p 5432 -F c orig_db > recovery.dmp.
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>> Pg_restore errors saying the database does not exist. Yes, I know that port 5432 is the default, but not all of our databases are. So, do I have any options wrong with either utility? Or why is this happening? I’m just trying to document a recovery procedure and testing my documentation.
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>> Jay
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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> I suspect the name your feeding to -d is the one you're trying to create? You still have to tell pg_restore to connect to a database that actually exists so it can log in to create one. So try passing "postgres" to the -d option. Or connect as you usually do with psql and run \l to see what databases already exist and connect to one of those.
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> Keith
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