Re: [HACKERS] Refactor handling of database attributes betweenpg_dump and pg_dumpall

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 02:54:25PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Hmm ... so there's a small problem with this idea of dropping and
> recreating template1:
> 
> pg_restore: connecting to database for restore
> pg_restore: dropping DATABASE template1
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error while PROCESSING TOC:
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 3024; 1262 1 DATABASE template1
>  postgres
> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR:  cannot drop a templ
> ate database
>     Command was: DROP DATABASE "template1";

Uh, the oid of the template1 database is 1, and I assume we would want
to preserve that too.

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