Re: pg_restore and permissions

That should work. Because of the error, I wonder if your OS doesn't
support local/indent authentication. Can you psql into template1 as
that user?

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Florian Weimer wrote:
> Is there a simple way to restore a databases from a pg_dump file?
> I've got a "pg_dump -F c" from version 7.1.3 and would like to restore
> it on a 7.2.1 database server.
>
> However, if I invoke, say, "pg_restore -C -d web web.db", I get the
> following error message:
>
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not reconnect to database: FATAL 1: IDENT authentication failed for user "www-data"
>
> My pg_hba.conf looks like this:
>
> local all ident sameuser
> host all 127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0 ident sameuser
> host all 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 reject
>
> I know how to work around this problem (and did it in the past), but
> I'd really like to be able to restore a database using a single
> command. Does such a command exist?
>
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