Re: pg_restore --clean --create reference documentation incongruity

Ok, -d intended as the database to connect to, makes sense.
Not the words of the documentation (-C --create): “When this option is used, the database named with
-d is used only to issue the initial DROP DATABASE and CREATE DATABASE commands.”!
Thanks for the clarification,
matt

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 5:32 AM, Matteo Fabbri <ma(dot)fabbri(at)teamsystem(dot)com<mailto:ma(dot)fabbri(at)teamsystem(dot)com>> wrote:
I expected the specified db (-d TEST1) was dropped and created, not the TEST2 db.
In essence it seems that the –d parameter is ignored and TEST1 db remains untouched.
What is the correct behavior? Is a pg_restore error? Is a reference documentation error? Or simply I have not interpreted correctly it?

You're misunderstanding the documentation slightly. The '-d' parameter is what database to connect to. The '-c' and '-C' parameters define how pg_restore handles the database(s) defined inside the dump.

Think of it this way, if you have a completely new empty PostgreSQL install, and you have a dump of 'testdb' you want to restore, you can't use '-d testdb' because you can't connect to a db that doesn't exist yet.

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