Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 1:13 AM Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> You should perform the restore as a superuser or as a user that has all >> the required permissions. Restoring with a non-superuser can be tricky. > I do everything database-related as user "postgres". Only "sudo yum" is > run from my personal account. The failing query seems to be a foreign-key enforcement check that happened to be triggered from COPY. Those are run as the owner of the table that is being checked. So it appears that in pg_restore: error: COPY failed for table "batch_rp4_y2022m08": ERROR: permission denied for schema tapschema LINE 1: SELECT 1 FROM ONLY "tapschema"."lockbox" x WHERE "lockbox_id... ^ QUERY: SELECT 1 FROM ONLY "tapschema"."lockbox" x WHERE "lockbox_id" OPERATOR(pg_catalog.=) $1 FOR KEY SHARE OF x the owner of table "lockbox" lacks usage permission on the containing schema "tapschema". That's a most bizarre situation and would have caused the same sort of FK failures in the originating database as well. pg_dump can't really promise to restore databases containing arbitrarily-broken permissions settings. regards, tom lane