Re: how to replicate database - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 09:15, Caroline Yong wrote:
> Is there a way to replicate one-off(a copy of
> duplicate) of an existing Postgres database.

pg_dump mydatabase > some_file

move some_file to another machine (or to duplicate the database on the
same server, use a new database name below)

createdb mydatabase
psql -d mydatabase < some_file

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