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From Mag Gam
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In response to Re: rename database  (Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>)
Responses Re: rename database  ("Robins Tharakan" <tharakan@gmail.com>)
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what's the right way to rename a database then?



On Feb 6, 2008 5:33 PM, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
Nuwan Liyanage wrote:
> Ok I think I got it. I just went ahead and updated the pg_database table
> and it works..
>

A better way is to connect to another database (template1 for exemple,
but you would better use another one) and fire your statement there.

Updating system table can be dangerous.


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