Re: drop database / create database / data still here ?

From: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
To: Mitch Collinsworth <mitch(at)ccmr(dot)cornell(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: drop database / create database / data still here ?
Date: 2010-04-20 16:00:12
Message-ID: 4BCDCF8C.9030306@lelarge.info
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Le 13/04/2010 20:16, Mitch Collinsworth a écrit :
> [...]
> I thought I understood how this worked, but now it's baffling me.
> I want to drop a database named coral from my test server and load
> a fresh dump of it from my production server. This has worked when
> I've done it before, but now it's giving me fits. Here's an
> example:
>
> coral=# \c postgres
> You are now connected to database "postgres".
> postgres=# drop database coral;
> DROP DATABASE
> postgres=# create database coral;
> CREATE DATABASE
> postgres=# \c coral
> You are now connected to database "coral".
> coral=# \dt *.*
> List of relations
> Schema | Name | Type | Owner
> --------------------+--------------------------------+-------+----------
> accmgr | acct_rate | table | accmgr
> accmgr | acct_rate_working | table | accmgr
> accmgr | acct_sum | table | accmgr
> accmgr | acct_sum_raw | table | accmgr
> accmgr | acct_sum_whatif | table | accmgr
> accmgr | acct_sum_working | table | accmgr
> accmgr | acct_temp | table | accmgr
> accmgr | eq_rate | table | accmgr
> accmgr | eq_rate_working | table | accmgr
> accmgr | inventory_rate | table | accmgr
> accmgr | inventory_rate_working | table | accmgr
> accmgr | inventory_surcharge | table | accmgr
> ...
> (115 rows)
>
> And likewise, select will pull up data from what I thought was a
> brand new, empty database. The coral server was stopped before I
> did this so there should have been no active connections at the
> time.
>
> This is with:
>
> PostgreSQL 8.1.18 on x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC)
> 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)
>

The only reason I found is that the template1 database already have
these objects. Can you connect to template1 and try \dt ?

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