Hi Anand,
I was unsuccessful in trying to reproduce this with a database and pg_dump
from 8.3.7 and a pg_restore of 8.4.22.
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I do get the following error during the restore on an empty database, however,
I think we can safely ignore this.
pg_restore: dropping TABLE employees
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 1465; 1259 16391 TABLE employees kannan
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR: table "employees" does not exist
Command was: DROP TABLE public.employees;
As evident the above error happens because the employees table does not exist in an empty database.
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I think I would follow Heikki's comments and check for errors during the schema restore first.
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Although I am not sure it would make much of a difference I would suggest you try the --create (-C)
option. Please note that this option tries to delete and re-create the database itself hence you will
need to supply some other database to the -d option.
Thank you,
Narayanan
