Hi, Debian Stretch PG 9.5.1 I am trying to pg_restore from a directory dump. However, despite using --clean --create --if-exists I am getting an error because schema PUBLIC already exists. That schema is, indeed, included in the dump to be restored and also cannot be omitted from either the dump or the restore because it still contains a few relevant things which I haven't yet moved to their own app specific schema. I am assuming (wrongly ?) that pg_restore uses template1 to re-create the target database. I had to re-create template1 today from template0 (as is suggested) because I erroneously added a few tables to template1 earlier. So, the newly created target DB will, indeed, contain a schema PUBLIC initially. That should not (?) matter however, because of the above options which I would have expected to drop the schema before (re)creating it (--clean). Here is the log: sudo -u postgres pg_restore --verbose --create --clean --if-exists --exit-on-error --disable-triggers --dbname=template1 -p 5432 /tmp/gnumed/gm-restore_2016-03-12_23-58-05/backup-gnumed_v20-GNUmed_Team-hermes-2016-03-07-21-15-06.dir/ pg_restore: verbinde mit der Datenbank zur Wiederherstellung pg_restore: entferne DATABASE gnumed_v20 pg_restore: erstelle DATABASE „gnumed_v20“ pg_restore: verbinde mit neuer Datenbank „gnumed_v20“ pg_restore: verbinde mit Datenbank „gnumed_v20“ als Benutzer „postgres“ pg_restore: erstelle SCHEMA „au“ pg_restore: erstelle SCHEMA „audit“ pg_restore: erstelle SCHEMA „bill“ pg_restore: erstelle COMMENT „SCHEMA bill“ pg_restore: erstelle SCHEMA „blobs“ pg_restore: erstelle SCHEMA „cfg“ pg_restore: erstelle COMMENT „SCHEMA cfg“ pg_restore: erstelle SCHEMA „clin“ pg_restore: erstelle SCHEMA „de_de“ pg_restore: erstelle SCHEMA „dem“ pg_restore: erstelle SCHEMA „gm“ pg_restore: erstelle SCHEMA „i18n“ pg_restore: erstelle SCHEMA „pgtrgm“ pg_restore: erstelle SCHEMA „public“ pg_restore: [Archivierer (DB)] Fehler in Phase PROCESSING TOC: pg_restore: [Archivierer (DB)] Fehler in Inhaltsverzeichniseintrag 8; 2615 2200 SCHEMA public postgres pg_restore: [Archivierer (DB)] could not execute query: FEHLER: Schema „public“ existiert bereits Die Anweisung war: CREATE SCHEMA public; I am sure I am doing something wrong, but what ? Thanks, Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ eu.pool.sks-keyservers.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general