Re: How to restore backup database

You do not have to create a database in Postgres either. There are some system databases already created for you, template0(read only best left alone), template1 and postgres. You can connect to one of these(best practices, use postgres) and then have the restore script create the new database.<IMPORTANT> If you do this you need to check the Include CREATE DATABASE statement box (http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/1.18/restore.html) <IMPORTANT>

To get a better idea of what is going on I would suggest reading the following sections of the docs:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interactive/app-pgdump.html

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interactive/app-pgrestore.html

This is what pgAdmin is using behind the scenes.