This is FreeBSD 11.3, with postgres installed from ports as 10.10. There is included a daily utility doing pg_dump: : ${daily_pgsql_pgdump_args:="-U ${daily_pgsql_user} -p ${daily_pgsql_port} -bF c"} pg_dump ${daily_pgsql_pgdump_args} -f ${file} ${db} Recently I did a restore of some database, as the postgres user, with: pg_restore -c -d <db> -h <host> <file> and now ordinary users are locked out of the database: PG::UndefinedTable: ERROR: relation "users" does not exist => \d users Did not find any relation named "users". => \d Did not find any relations. => \d public.users Table "public.users" [etc.etc. all is present] => show search_path; search_path ----------------- "$user", public (1 row) => select current_schemas(false); current_schemas ----------------- {} (1 row) eh???? HOPPALA!!! => select * from public.users; ERROR: permission denied for schema public How can this happen? I don't think I twiddled anything with schemas, in fact I never used them in any way. cheers, PMc