On Sun, Feb 22, 2026 at 1:05 AM Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> What about options like these?:
>
>   n/--schema
>   N/--exclude-schema
>   t/--table
>   T/--trigger
>   I/--index
>   P/--function
>   -filter
>
> We're not currently doing anything about those, but do they make sense when 
> restoring a pg_dumpall archive?
>

We should reject these options too, since these options do not make
sense for multiple databases, IMHO.

>
> pg_restore --clean --format=directory will produce DROP DATABASE will
> process global objects,
> it will also produce DROP DATABASE when processing each individual database.
> To prevent errors during a subsequent restore, we can require
> pg_restore --clean option must be used together with --if-exists when
> restoring a non-plain-text dump.
>
> We could. Or we could just turn it on (and document that it will be turned 
> on) in this case. I'd rather not force people to use lots of flags.
>

Turning it on is OK for me.

The attached patch addresses the two issues described above.


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jian
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