Re: cloning database - Mailing list pgsql-general

From David G Johnston
Subject Re: cloning database
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Msg-id 1411238813219-5819805.post@n5.nabble.com
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In response to Re: cloning database  (hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@gmail.com>)
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hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Philipp Kraus <

> philipp.kraus@

> >
> wrote:
>
>> Is there a buildin way to clone the "database_source" with all structure
>> and data into a new database "database1..150" ?
>>
>
> assuming you're using bash shell, this should work:
>
> for i in {1..150}; do createdb -T database_source database$i; done
>
> it's not a built-in, but very close.
>
> depesz

Any advantage to this compared to using pl/pgsql via a DO command while
connected to the postgres database?  Note it would require dynamic SQL
(i.e., EXECUTE).

David J.






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