Many thanks folks, the last message by Adrian gave me the relatively simple
prescription.
Sincerely,
Dr. Ronald D. Haynes
Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Chair, MSc and Phd Scientific Computing Programs
Memorial University of Newfoundland
We acknowledge that the lands on whi
On 7/19/22 9:44 AM, Ronald Haynes wrote:
Thanks Ray, running
pSql -f backup-file.sql
psql: error: FATAL: database "rhaynes74" does not exist
No that is expected as you did not specify a database to connect to
using -d . In that case psql uses the OS user name you are
running the command a
On 7/19/22 9:49 AM, Benedict Holland wrote:
You have to create the database to restore to. Then pg_resrore should work.
The OP is not using pg_restore but psql as the dump file is plain text.
Thanks,
Ben
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Adrian Klaver
adrian.kla...@aklaver.com
You have to create the database to restore to. Then pg_resrore should work.
Thanks,
Ben
On Tue, Jul 19, 2022, 12:44 PM Ronald Haynes wrote:
> Thanks Ray, running
>
> pSql -f backup-file.sql
>
>
>
> psql: error: FATAL: database "rhaynes74" does not exist
>
> Which seems odd since rhaynes74 is a
Thanks Ray, running
pSql -f backup-file.sql
psql: error: FATAL: database "rhaynes74" does not exist
Which seems odd since rhaynes74 is a user not a database name in the file.
Sincerely,
Dr. Ronald D. Haynes
Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Chair, MSc and Phd Scientific Com
On 19/07/2022 11:11, Ronald Haynes wrote:
Hi folks, I am a fairly novice postgresql user.
I have a backup file for a couple of small postgresql databases. The
backup file was created using postgresql 12.2, my Mac now has a
postgresql 13.x or 14.x versions. I would like to restore the s
