From: | Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Joao Ferreira gmail <joao(dot)miguel(dot)c(dot)ferreira(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: safelly erasing dirs/files |
Date: | 2009-11-14 19:38:51 |
Message-ID: | 4AFF074B.1090105@2ndquadrant.com |
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Joao Ferreira gmail wrote:
> How can I safelly erase (with rm command in Linux) files or dirs
> concerning a specific database ?
>
You can't do it with rm; you need to execute the SQL "drop" command
somehow to clean up all the references to that database. If you want to
remove a database from the command line, there's a wrapper script named
dropdb you can use to do that:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/app-dropdb.html
Note that removing a database will require connecting to the server as a
superuser or owner of the database. If you want to do that in a script,
you might need to setup a .pgpass file:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/libpq-pgpass.html
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Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant Baltimore, MD
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
greg(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com www.2ndQuadrant.com
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