Many thanks folks, the last message by Adrian gave me the relatively simple prescription.
Sincerely,
Dr. Ronald D. Haynes
Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Chair, MSc and Phd Scientific Computing Programs
Memorial University of Newfoundland
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On Jul 19, 2022, 2:22 PM -0230, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx>, wrote:
On 7/19/22 9:44 AM, Ronald Haynes wrote:
Thanks Ray, running
pSql -f backup-file.sql
psql: error: FATAL: database "rhaynes74" does not exist
No that is expected as you did not specify a database to connect to
using -d <some_db>. In that case psql uses the OS user name you are
running the command as for the database name per:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/libpq-connect.html#LIBPQ-PARAMKEYWORDS
dbname
The database name. Defaults to be the same as the user name. In
certain contexts, the value is checked for extended formats; see Section
34.1.1 for more details on those.
So change the command to:
psql -d postgres -U <db_user> -f backup-file.sql
Where <db_user> is a database user that has the correct privileges to
load/create the databases.
Which seems odd since rhaynes74 is a user not a database name in the file.
Sincerely,
Dr. Ronald D. Haynes
Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Chair, MSc and Phd Scientific Computing Programs
Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxxxx
