On 10/20/22 00:12, Tom Lane wrote:
> Frank Gard <frank.von.postgresql.org@familie-gard.de> writes:
>> Am 20.10.22 um 02:58 schrieb Ron:
>>> pg_restore -v --create --clean --jobs=`nproc` -Fd --dbname=template1 $DB
>> What database do you want to restore your data into? As far as I know your pg_restore command would import the data
intotemplate1, right?
> No --- my ears went up about that too, but he's using --create.
> So template1 is just the springboard for the initial connection
> in which CREATE DATABASE will be issued.
>
> My guess is that there's something inconsistent between source
> and target installations about roles and role-privilege grants.
> We don't have enough details to do more than guess, though.
I ran "pg_dumpall --globals-only --no-role-passwords" on the source
instance, and applied it to the new instance before doing the pg_restore.
If I hadn't done that, pg_restore would have thrown errors on all the GRANT
and ALTER TABLE ... OWNER TO statements embedded in the backup.
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