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From Joan
Subject There should be a way to use the force flag when restoring databases
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Msg-id CAP4s+CEVVFREtnw8LpeNGUKcVowR0qMNiHw-A9+8h3-a0AQEaQ@mail.gmail.com
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Since posgres 13 there's the option to do a FORCE when dropping a database (so it disconnects current users) Documentation here: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-dropdatabase.html

I am currently using dir format for the output
   pg_dump -d "bdname" -F d -j 4 -v -f /tmp/dir

And restoring the database with
  pg_restore -d postgres -C -c --exit-on-error -F d -j 3 -v /tmp/dir

Having an option to add the FORCE option to either the generated dump by pg_dump, or in the pg_restore would be very useful when restoring the databases to another servers so it would avoid having to do scripting.

In my specific case I am using this to refresh periodically a development environment with data from production servers for a small database (~200M).

Thanks,

Joan

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