Django Cookiecutter Database restore

Question

I'm trying to restore the database with the maintenance script provided. But there is a check in the script which doesn't allow me to restore if the user is postgres.

Any reason for that ?

Answer 1

It is a custom to not use the postgres user in this case. Similar to the custom that when operating a linux server, you use a user account instead of the root account.

You can remove the passage from the script if you want to proceed anyway. However, cookiecutter-django should have generated a .env/.production/.postgres file with a different username than postgres.