Re: pg_dump not dumping default_text_search_config WAI?

On 2025-11-09 04:06, Tom Lane wrote:

> Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au> writes:
>> I just got bitten by dumping and restoring a database to a new cluster,
>> and the default_text_search_config was not copied for the database.
>
>> A check of the dump file shows no 'ALTER DATABASE' command.
>
> IIRC you'd need to use --create to prod pg_dump to produce
> a CREATE DATABASE command as well as any database-level
> ALTER commands.

Is that a good approach? The --create option should create the DB, yes. But...DB settings should, IMO, be done as part of the normal state dump/restore

ie. If I have previously issued a "create database" then a pg_restore should be able to create a matching database.

Would there be any appetite for a patch to at least implement this as an option? Which leads to setting other config parameters and the settings for ALLOW_CONNECTIONS and CONNECTION LIMIT.