Re: Unhappy thoughts about pg_dump and objects inherited from template1

From: Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Unhappy thoughts about pg_dump and objects inherited from template1
Date: 2000-11-08 15:48:50
Message-ID: 3.0.5.32.20001109024850.02f0a6d0@mail.rhyme.com.au
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At 10:15 8/11/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>I like
>
> CREATE DATABASE foo WITH TEMPLATE 'template0'
>
>better than a SET command.

Just seems like we'd be forcing non-standard syntax on ourselves when/if
CREATE DATABASE becomes CREATE SCHEMA; I would assume that the two
statements would become synonymous? Since this code is only for pg_dump,
polluting CREATE DATABASE even further seems like a bad idea. No big deal,
though.

[Minor aside: would 'FROM TEMPLATE' be better?]

Question: if I issue a "CREATE DATABASE foo WITH TEMPLATE 'my-favorite-db'"
will I just get a copy of the specified database, including data?

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