Re: rename

Neil Conway wrote:

>On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 09:29, Ken Guest wrote:
>
>
>>Guys,
>>Is it possible to rename databases, and what's the syntax I should
>>use?
>>
>>
>
>Well, it's *possible* -- you can manually update the system catalogs,
>like so:
>
>UPDATE pg_database SET datname = 'newname' WHERE datname = 'oldname';
>VACUUM FULL pg_database;
>
>(The VACUUM is required as pg_database is not MVCC-aware).
>
>However, this is not recommended operating procedure, if it destroys all
>your data I won't take any responsibility :-) A safer route would be to
>pg_dump the database and restore it with a different name.
>
>

so would pg_dump olddb | pgsql newdb work or this is too simplistic an
approach?

>
>

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