pg_restore

Restore a PostgreSQL database from an archive file created by pg_dump. More information: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-pgrestore.html.

• Restore an archive into an existing database:

pg_restore -d db_name archive_file.dump

• Same as above, customize username:

pg_restore -U username -d db_name archive_file.dump

• Same as above, customize host and port:

pg_restore -h host -p port -d db_name archive_file.dump

• List database objects included in the archive:

pg_restore --list archive_file.dump

• Clean database objects before creating them:

pg_restore --clean -d db_name archive_file.dump

• Use multiple jobs to do the restoring:

pg_restore -j 2 -d db_name archive_file.dump