psql: error: FATAL: database "rhaynes74" does not exist
Which seems odd since rhaynes74 is a user not a database name in the file.
Sincerely,
Dr. Ronald D. Haynes Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics Chair, MSc and Phd Scientific Computing Programs Memorial University of Newfoundland
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On Jul 19, 2022, 9:40 AM -0230, Ray O'Donnell <ray@rodonnell.ie>, wrote:
On 19/07/2022 11:11, Ronald Haynes wrote:
Hi folks, I am a fairly novice postgresql user.
I have a backup file for a couple of small postgresql databases. The backup file was created using postgresql 12.2, my Mac now has a postgresql 13.x or 14.x versions. I would like to restore the setup from the backup file.
That looks like a dump file generated by pg_dumpall, so restoring it should be as simple as:
psql -f backup-file.sql
You'll possibly need other connection parameters as required by psql, such as -U (the PostgreSQL user to use for connecting) or others.