Got it. Must be the version difference. I run pgAdmin on Windows PC but direct pg_dump on Ubuntu 20.04.
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 7:27 AM Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2/23/21 6:36 AM, Santosh Udupi wrote:
> The pg_restore command is actually pg_restore -Ft -d mydb mydb.tar (my
> mistake).
>
> I didn't provide the -h -p -U since I use the super user account to
> restore (I will try adding them). The restore had always worked until I
> altered the table in the source database.
>
> After I added the column, the restore still takes place but does not
> populate the generated column. I did a backup using pgAdmin and the
> restore populated all data using the same syntax on the tar file. So my
> suspicion is that pg_dump is not doing the dump correctly. I will work
> on it further. Thanks for your suggestions.
>
pgAdmin uses pg_dump to do backups.
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Adrian Klaver
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