Re: template0 and template1 databases

No. "template0" is new for version 7.1. No doubt a developer can tell you
exactly why dropping "template0" would be a very bad idea; I am just getting
in quickly to make sure you don't do so in the interim :-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Gould" <andrewgould(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <jdassen(at)cistron(dot)nl>;
<pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 7:51 AM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] template0 and template1 databases

> Thanks for the info and link.
>
> So if I'm running PostgreSQL 7.1.3 and have pg_dumped
> my databases, I can 'dropdb template0'?
>
> Andrew
>
> --- "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <jdassen(at)cistron(dot)nl> wrote:
> > Andrew Gould <andrewgould(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
> > > I notice that template0 can't be vacuumed; and
> > that template1 gets
> > > vacuumed but has "no relations" per \d.
> > >
> > > What do these databases do?
> >
> > template0 is probably a leftover you got from
> > importing a dump from an older
> > version of PostgreSQL. template1 is the "master"
> > database from which new
> > databases are cloned; see
> >
>
http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?managing-databases.html#MANAGE-AG-
CREATEDB
> >
> > HTH,
> > Ray
> > --
> > "a infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs
> > would never make a good
> > program"
> > .../linux/Documentation/CodingStyle
> >
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