Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 01:42:53 +0100
From: "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-pgsql@hjp.at>
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Subject: Re: Help with restoring database from old version of PostgreSQL
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On 2024-11-19 16:47:40 -0500, Catherine Frock wrote:
> I am trying to restore a previously backed up database .sql file that was
> created in PostgreSQL 9.6 using pgAdmin4 (I'm not sure which version I was
> using).
>=20
> In response to Ron: Do I need to use PG16 instead of pgAdmin4?

As Ron already pointed out, these are different things. PostgreSQL is a
Database. PgAdmin ist a Client for that database. You can't use one
instead of the other. You can only use them together (but of course you
could use a different client instead of PgAdmin4).

> I set the=A0PostgreSQL Binary Path to:=A0C:\Program
> Files\PostgreSQL\17\bin. I have tried to restore my database using
> this in the command prompt: "psql.exe db_2024_9 <
> C:\postgis\db_2017-08-16.sql postgres" using an empty database in both
> the PostgreSQL 9.6 and 17 servers, and this is the result:
>=20
> Password for user postgres:
> SET
[...]
> ALTER TABLE
> ERROR: =A0role "basic_user" does not exist
[...]
> ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES
> ERROR: =A0role "basic_user" does not exist

That looks fine except that the user "basic_user" doesn't exist. You
should create that before restoring the backup. Or could fix the errors
after the fact but for that you need to understand what went wrong.

        hp

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