HI Gurjeet, that woulld be great, all the cases where a FORCE won't apply make totally sense (either complex scenarios or permission issues)
> It doesn't terminate if prepared transactions, active logical replication > slots or subscriptions are present in the target database. > This will fail if the current user has no permissions to terminate other > connections > Regards Missatge de Gurjeet Singh <gurj...@singh.im> del dia dc., 19 de jul. 2023 a les 19:28: > On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 12:53 AM Joan <aseq...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Since posgres 13 there's the option to do a FORCE when dropping a > database (so it disconnects current users) Documentation here: > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-dropdatabase.html > > > > I am currently using dir format for the output > > pg_dump -d "bdname" -F d -j 4 -v -f /tmp/dir > > > > And restoring the database with > > pg_restore -d postgres -C -c --exit-on-error -F d -j 3 -v /tmp/dir > > > > Having an option to add the FORCE option to either the generated dump by > pg_dump, or in the pg_restore would be very useful when restoring the > databases to another servers so it would avoid having to do scripting. > > > > In my specific case I am using this to refresh periodically a > development environment with data from production servers for a small > database (~200M). > > Making force-drop a part of pg_dump output may be dangerous, and not > provide much flexibility at restore time. > > Adding a force option to pg_restore feels like providing the right > tradeoff. > > The docs for 'pg_restore --create` say "Create the database before > restoring into it. If --clean is also specified, drop and recreate the > target database before connecting to it." > > If we provided a force option, it may then additionally say: "If the > --clean and --force options are specified, DROP DATABASE ... WITH > FORCE command will be used to drop the database." > > Using WITH FORCE is not a guarantee, as the DROP DATABASE docs clarify > the conditions under which it may fail. > > Best regards, > Gurjeet > http://Gurje.et >
