Re: rename

On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 09:29, Ken Guest wrote:
> Guys,
> Is it possible to rename databases, and what's the syntax I should
> use?

Well, it's *possible* -- you can manually update the system catalogs,
like so:

UPDATE pg_database SET datname = 'newname' WHERE datname = 'oldname';
VACUUM FULL pg_database;

(The VACUUM is required as pg_database is not MVCC-aware).

However, this is not recommended operating procedure, if it destroys all
your data I won't take any responsibility :-) A safer route would be to
pg_dump the database and restore it with a different name.

Cheers,

Neil
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