Re: pg_restore schema dump to schema with different name

On Mon, 2021-08-23 at 09:44 +0000, Nagaraj Raj wrote:
> I know I can alter schema name after restoring but the problem is the name already exist and I don't want to touch
thatexisting schema.
 
> The dump type is "custom".
> 
> So effectively I want something like.
> pg_dump -U postgres --schema "source_schema" --format "c" --create --file "source_schema.bak" my_db
> pg_restore -U postgres --exit-on-error --dbname "my_db"  --destination-schema "destination_schema"

The only way to do that is to create a new database, import the data there,
rename the schema and dump again.

Then import that dump into the target database.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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