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Dump and Restore

Handy commands for dumping and restoring Postgres databases.

:::info Most of these commands are run using Docker as then we don't need to have Postgres installed locally.

If a different version of Postgres is needed, just change the version number in the Docker image tag. :::

Dumping a Database

docker run --network host --rm -v .:/tmp -e PGPASSWORD=mysecretpassword postgres:16 pg_dump -h localhost -U myuser -d mydb > /tmp/dump.sql

Restoring a Database

docker run --network host --rm -v .:/tmp -e PGPASSWORD=mysecretpassword postgres:16 psql -h localhost -U myuser -d mydb < /tmp/dump.sql