The error is harmless but to get rid of it, I think you need to break this restore into two commands, as in:
dropdb -U postgres mydb && \
pg_restore --create --dbname=postgres --username=postgres pg_backup.dump
The --clean
option in pg_restore doesn't look like much but actually raises non-trivial problems.
For versions up to 9.1
The combination of --create
and --clean
in pg_restore options used to be an error in older PG versions (up to 9.1). There is indeed some contradiction between (quoting the 9.1 manpage):
--clean
Clean (drop) database objects before recreating them
and
--create
Create the database before restoring into it.
Because what's the point of cleaning inside a brand-new database?
Starting from version 9.2
The combination is now accepted and the doc says this (quoting the 9.3 manpage):
--clean
Clean (drop) database objects before recreating them. (This might generate some harmless error messages, if any objects were not present in the destination database.)
--create
Create the database before restoring into it. If --clean is also specified, drop and recreate the target database before connecting to it.
Now having both together leads to this kind of sequence during your restore:
DROP DATABASE mydb;
...
CREATE DATABASE mydb WITH TEMPLATE = template0... [other options]
...
CREATE SCHEMA public;
...
CREATE TABLE...
There is no DROP
for each individual object, only a DROP DATABASE
at the beginning. If not using --create
this would be the opposite.
Anyway this sequence raises the error of public
schema already existing because creating mydb
from template0
has imported it already (which is normal, it's the point of a template database).
I'm not sure why this case is not handled automatically by pg_restore
. Maybe this would cause undesirable side-effects when an admin decides to customize template0
and/or change the purpose of public
, even if we're not supposed to do that.
This will probably do what you want:
revoke create on schema public¹ from public²;
Note that the public² does not mean the schema public¹, but a group representation of all users of the database. So when you try to revoke your user from creating tables nothing happens because it probably does not have this permissions at start(except if you give it), but the group public² that your user belongs, is with this access by default - That's the default behavior for schema public.
Now you can give the create privilege for specific users:
grant create on schema public to specificuser;
Best Answer
Unfortunately, I can only answer the question in the title.
Here's an excerpt from an article on Compose.io that might shed some light on your question:
Bottom line - "focker" represents the command line API "user" of Compose.io.
In yet another article, we can see the following:
My best bet would be trying:
psql postgres -U focker