# Assumes the database container is named 'db' DOCKER_DB_NAME="$(docker-compose ps -q db)" DB_HOSTNAME=db DB_USER=postgres LOCAL_DUMP_PATH="path/to/local.dump" docker-compose up -d db docker exec -i "${DOCKER_DB_NAME}" pg_restore -C --clean --no-acl --no-owner -U "${DB_USER}" -d "${DB_HOSTNAME}" < "${LOCAL_DUMP_PATH}" docker-compose stop db