Re: pg_restore dumps all data to the terminal

On 04/26/2018 10:15 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
> On Thursday, April 26, 2018, Ron <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com
> <mailto:ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> v9.6.8, restoring from 8.4.17
>
> This command dumps not just the schema to the terminal (technically,
> nohup.out) but the actual data.  How do I stop that?  There's no
> --quiet, and that's not what I want anyway...
>
> pg_restore -cC --if-exists -e -Fd -j4 ${SOURCE}/${DB}
>
>
> "pg_restore can operate in two modes. If a database name is specified,
> pg_restore connects to that database and restores archive contents
> directly into the database. Otherwise, a script containing the SQL
> commands necessary to rebuild the database is created and written to a
> file or standard output."
>
> You haven't specified a database so you get the second mode.

But the database doesn't exist.  If I have to explicitly create the DB
beforehand, what's the purpose of the "--create" option?

But... looking more carefully at the examples, I see that one must attach to
the postgres db when you want pg_restore to create the database.  (That
should be made clear in the --create section of the manual.)

Thanks

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