Got it. Must be the version difference. I run pgAdmin on Windows PC but direct pg_dump on Ubuntu 20.04.
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 7:27 AM Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@aklaver.com> wrote: > On 2/23/21 6:36 AM, Santosh Udupi wrote: > > The pg_restore command is actually pg_restore -Ft -d mydb mydb.tar (my > > mistake). > > > > I didn't provide the -h -p -U since I use the super user account to > > restore (I will try adding them). The restore had always worked until I > > altered the table in the source database. > > > > After I added the column, the restore still takes place but does not > > populate the generated column. I did a backup using pgAdmin and the > > restore populated all data using the same syntax on the tar file. So my > > suspicion is that pg_dump is not doing the dump correctly. I will work > > on it further. Thanks for your suggestions. > > > > pgAdmin uses pg_dump to do backups. > > > -- > Adrian Klaver > adrian.kla...@aklaver.com >