Re: Cleaning up template 1 - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Thomas Swan
Subject Re: Cleaning up template 1
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In response to Cleaning up template 1  ("Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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Thomas Swan wrote:

> Josh Berkus wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> Due to an accident with a script, I created about 200 objects in the
>> template1 database instead of the database for which they were
>> intended.  I am now faced with either deleting each of these object 
>> individually,
>> or dumping my whole postgresql installation and re-installing each
>> user database, one at a time.
>>
> If this is 7.2 you should be able to drop template1 and do create 
> database template1 from template0. 
> DROP DATABASE template1;
> CREATE DATABASE template1 WITH TEMPLATE=template0;
>
> Check first with another installation as I'm not too sure about the 
> ramifications. 

If you installed languages on template1 for defaults you will need to 
recreate them for the new template1 database.  I forgot template0 was 
completely empty.  

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>>
>> Can anyone suggest any shortcuts for fixing this problem?
>>
>> -Josh
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