Thread: Change the name of the database

Could somebody help me?
I'm trying to change the name of my psql database.
Does it exist any command to do this.

Thanks a lot for your help,

Sylvain Brohée
Free University of Brussels

> Could somebody help me?
> I'm trying to change the name of my psql database.
> Does it exist any command to do this.

Sure,
just issue this command:

  alter database old_db_name rename to new_db_name;

Bye,
Chris.

am  17.01.2005, um 12:06:45 +0100 mailte Sylvain Brohée folgendes:
> Could somebody help me?
> I'm trying to change the name of my psql database.
> Does it exist any command to do this.

Create a dump, create the new db, and play the dump in the new db.


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Chris Mair <list@1006.org> writes:
>> I'm trying to change the name of my psql database.
>> Does it exist any command to do this.

> just issue this command:
>   alter database old_db_name rename to new_db_name;

Note that this command exists only since PG 7.4.  In earlier releases,
you can fake it by executing a manual UPDATE on pg_database.  (Beware
that you need to do a CHECKPOINT afterware to be sure that newly
connecting backends will see the updated name.)

            regards, tom lane