On Fri, 13 Dec 2024, Adrian Klaver wrote:

Alright, from here:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-pgdump.html

"-c
--clean

Output commands to DROP all the dumped database objects prior to outputting the commands for creating them. This option is useful when the restore is to overwrite an existing database. If any of the objects do not exist in the destination database, ignorable error messages will be reported during restore, unless --if-exists is also specified.

This option is ignored when emitting an archive (non-text) output file. For the archive formats, you can specify the option when you call pg_restore.
"

This means when you run the script with:

psql -d bustrac -f bustrac-2024-12-12.sql

it will clean out the current corrupted objects and replace them with those in the backup file.

Adrian,

That's what I thought since I wrote the script based on reading pgdump a
long time ago.

Thanks for confirming! I'll fix my carelessness now.

Carpe weekend,

Rich


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