Re: Errors when restoring backup created by pg_dumpall

On Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 11:24 PM David G. Johnston <
david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday, December 9, 2024, Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 10:36 PM Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>
>> wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>>> In future schema qualify all references.
>>>
>>> For now in the dump file you could search for
>>>
>>> SELECT pg_catalog.set_config('search_path', '', false);
>>>
>>> and set to
>>>
>>> SELECT pg_catalog.set_config('search_path', 'public', false);
>>>
>>
>> What if this had been a pg_dump --format={custom,directory} backup?
>>
>
> pg_restore has a mode where it can dump out SQL to a script instead of
> directly restoring to the database.
>

That Would Be Very, Very Bad if this were a database big enough to have
required a multi-threaded dump.

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