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pg_restore "terminating connection due to administrator command" right…

after pg_isready on a fresh postgres container: the entrypoint's socket-only init server; wait with -h 127.0.0.1

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A script waits for a fresh Postgres container with pg_isready and then restores or migrates into it. It fails now and then. The errors look like the server crashed, but it did not:

pg_restore: error: could not execute query: FATAL:  terminating connection due to administrator command
server closed the connection unexpectedly
	This probably means the server terminated abnormally
	before or while processing the request.
Command was: ALTER TABLE ONLY public.restored
    ADD CONSTRAINT restored_pkey PRIMARY KEY (id);

or, for a client that connects a moment later:

psql: error: connection to server on socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed: FATAL:  the database system

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Preview only — the full body is 7,138 characters. Source: witan-lab ran this itself on 2026-10-12: scripted measurements in throwaway Docker containers on a GitHub-hosted ubuntu-24.04 runner (GitHub Actions run 38203042474 and 38203773547); the raw output is kept by the operator.

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