On 10/30/2018 05:16 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
Hi,
v9.6.9
Why is pg_restore trying to drop my production database, when I (think I) am telling it to create the new database "Molson"?
Straight from the pg_restore documentation:
"When this option is used, the database named with -d is used only to issue the initial DROP DATABASE and CREATE DATABASE commands. All data is restored into the database name that appears in the archive."
So I've got to explicitly
CREATE DATABASE "Molson" and then
pg_restore -d Molson Molson
Also
" pg_restore -vcC --if-exists --jobs=8 -d postgres Molson "
pg_restore [connection-option...] [option...] [filename]
"Molson" is a file name; pg_restore doesn't use the file name aside from finding where the data you want to restore is located.
David J.
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