Re: Copy database

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: "Uwe C(dot) Schroeder" <uwe(at)oss4u(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org, Krzysztof Szadkowski <kszadkow(at)eldip(dot)lodz(dot)pl>, pgsql-admin-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Copy database
Date: 2006-01-30 23:55:11
Message-ID: 20060130235511.GN3920@pervasive.com
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createdb --template=sourcedatabase newdatabase will also work (and
probably work faster) if you can kick everyone out of sourcedatabase and
you're doing all this on one machine.

On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 07:31:29PM -0800, Uwe C. Schroeder wrote:
> pg_dump -h sourcehost -U sourceuser sourcedatabase | psql -h desthost -U
> destuser destdatabase
>
> you may have to add a parameter for the password depending on your pg_hba.conf
> settings. Both databases need to be network enabled and have a pg_hba.conf
> entry for the machine you're running this command on.
>
>
>
> On Monday 23 January 2006 00:49, Krzysztof Szadkowski wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am looking for a way to copy whole database to another existing
> > database.
> > Any suggestions ?
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > Best regards,
> > Krzysztof Szadkowski
> >
> >
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