pg_restore won't create database - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Christopher J. Bottaro
Subject pg_restore won't create database
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Msg-id d8s6og$9n9$1@sea.gmane.org
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Responses Re: pg_restore won't create database  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-general
Here's what I'm trying to do:

$ pg_dump -Fc -b -f backup.pgd test_backup_db
$ dropdb test_backup_db
DROP DATABASE
$ pg_restore -C -d test_backup_db backup.pgd
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] connection to database "test_backup_db" failed:
FATAL:  database "test_backup_db" does not exist

Here is what the man pages for -C say:

-C
--create
 Create the database before restoring into it. (When this option is used,
the database named with -d is used only to issue the initial CREATE
DATABASE command. All data is restored into the database name that appears
in the archive.)

What am I doing wrong?  Thank you for the help.

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