From: Gnanakumar <gnanam@zoniac.com>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Database clone stuck in the middle
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 12:05:03 +0530
Message-ID: <009e01cad22e$a3121400$e9363c00$@com> (raw)
Hi,
I'm using PostgreSQL 8.2 on RedHat ES 5.
I connect to our database which is hosted remotely using PuTTY thro SSH
protocol.
As part of my maintenance activity, I was cloning the database using the
command:
CREATE DATABASE newdb WITH TEMPLATE=olddb;
While cloning was in-progress, my Internet got disconnected in the middle,
so database cloning was also stuck in the middle. Then I again logged-in to
my server and listed my databases using psql '\l' command. My newdb was not
listed here, but a new database OID folder is created in the PostgreSQL data
folder "/usr/local/pgsql/data/base/<newdb-OID>".
My questions are:
1. Can I go ahead and delete this newdb-OID manually from this location
using:
rm -fr /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/<newdb-OID>
2. Is there any implication to other databases because of manually deleting
in this way?
3. Does PostgreSQL postmaster check for anything of this newdb-OID reference
during start/stop/restart?
4. Considering this Internet disconnection problem, what is the safest way
to clone a database using CREATE DATABASE WITH TEMPLATE command, so that
this will
not happen in the future?
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