On 26 June 2012 10:59, Christoph Zwerschke <cito@online.de> wrote:
> Our developers like the dblink modules, so I have installed it into the
> template1 database. They also like to import old database dumps after
> creating new databases with dbcreate. But then they get irritated by the
> error messages saying that the dblink functions already exist, because these
> functions are in the old dumps, but dbcreate already copied them from the
> template1 database. Also, some scripts which copy databases break or create
> unnecessary error messages because of that. Are there any best practices
> when using dblink to avoid these issues?
I usually create a new template database containing such functions and
use that template in the CREATE DATABASE statements.
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