| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Hadley Willan <hadley(dot)willan(at)deeperdesign(dot)co(dot)nz>, Postgresql General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Is renaming a database easy or dangerous |
| Date: | 2003-03-07 03:58:00 |
| Message-ID: | 200303070358.h273w0X18299@candle.pha.pa.us |
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scott.marlowe wrote:
> On 27 Feb 2003, Hadley Willan wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I'd like to rename one of my databases. Is it is simple as changing
> > the datname field in the pg_databases table?
> >
> > If so, is it done through ALTER database or a SQL update?
>
> The way I do it is:
>
> # createdb newdb
> # pg_dump olddb|psql -e newdb
> ... check to make sure it's all there working, then...
> # dropdb olddb
The coolest way I have seen it done is to do CREATE DATABASE with
TEMPLATE old_dbname, then drop the old database.
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