From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Mitch Collinsworth <mitch@ccmr.cornell.edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: drop database / create database / data still here ?
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:25:07 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <201004201525.o3KFP7p20556@momjian.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.1004131409580.4362@siamese.ccmr.cornell.edu>
Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I thought I understood how this worked, but now it's baffling me.
> I want to drop a database named coral from my test server and load
> a fresh dump of it from my production server. This has worked when
> I've done it before, but now it's giving me fits. Here's an
> example:
>
> coral=# \c postgres
> You are now connected to database "postgres".
> postgres=# drop database coral;
> DROP DATABASE
> postgres=# create database coral;
> CREATE DATABASE
> postgres=# \c coral
> You are now connected to database "coral".
> coral=# \dt *.*
The problem is that you have created these tables in the 'template1'
database, and they are getting copied from there everytime you create a
new database. FYI, you can also use another database as the template
database if you wish.
--
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com
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