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docker-volume-backup/tests/unit/restore
Kevin Veen-Birkenbach 5f3ee0a669 fix(restore): refuse a cluster restore that would destroy what it cannot restore
The --empty pre-clean is a catalog-wide sweep: it drops every non-template database and every non-pg_ role of the instance. On a dedicated instance that is exactly right, because the dump recreates all of it. On a shared one it destroys databases the dump does not carry, with nothing to restore them from - and no test ever executed that sweep, because the e2e dropped the cluster by hand first and left the pre-clean with zero rows to generate.

Scoping the sweep to the dump's own inventory looks like the fix and is worse. A surviving database that owns or merely grants to one of the dump's roles pins that role in pg_shdepend; DROP OWNED BY only reaches the control database the pre-clean is connected to, so DROP ROLE fails - after phase 1 has already dropped the dump's databases. ON_ERROR_STOP aborts, the replay never starts, and the instance is left half emptied.

So the instance is checked instead. --empty now refuses when the instance holds a database the dump does not carry, names it, and touches nothing. The sweep stays as it was, safe behind that refusal. Reading the dump's inventory needs a real identifier parser: a quoted name may hold spaces, and psql options precede the target of a \\connect line.

The e2e no longer drops the cluster itself, so --empty has to do it and the replay has to put it back; a second pass then adds a foreign database and requires the refusal to leave both it and the restored data alone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 08:15:58 +02:00
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