Postgresql – backup database and restore on different owner?

You should use the –no-owner option, this stops pg_restore trying to set the ownership of the objects to the original owner. Instead the objects will be owned by the user specified by –role createdb -p 5433 -T template0 db_name pg_restore -p 5433 –no-owner –role=owner2 -d db_name db_name.dump pg_restore doc