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). Thanks, Joan
