Thread: Pg_restore

On 3/1/19 2:17 AM, Nicola Contu wrote:
> Hello,
> we are trying to move our postgres 10.5 instance to 11.2
>
> We are trying to restore a DB in a pre-production env but we get an error 
> on the pg_restore command
>
> [root@STAGING]#  /usr/local/pgsql11.2/bin/pg_restore -v -U postgres -L 
> /data/cofinder_restore.lst  -d cofinder  -j 16  /home/ncontu/data/dbbackups/C
> pg_restore: connecting to database for restore
> pg_restore: processing item 3098 ENCODING ENCODING
> pg_restore: processing item 3099 STDSTRINGS STDSTRINGS
> pg_restore: processing item 3100 SEARCHPATH SEARCHPATH
> pg_restore: processing item 3101 DATABASE cofinder
> pg_restore: processing item 3 SCHEMA public
> pg_restore: creating SCHEMA "public"
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error while PROCESSING TOC:
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 3; 2615 2200 SCHEMA 
> public postgres
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR:  schema 
> "public" already exists
>     Command was: CREATE SCHEMA public;
>
> The dump is taken with pgsql10 binaries.
>
> Can you help on this please?
> We also have another DB, but with the other one no issues doing the same 
> thing.

Out of curiosity, why are you using the "-L" option instead of restoring the 
whole database?

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