Re: moving database to diff. server

On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 04:02:24PM -0400, Paul Keyes wrote:
>
> I'm confused about one aspect of backing up and moving
> a database to a different server.
> I've used pg_dump to dump the database and moved he
> resulting file to the new server, where Postgresql is
> istalled and configured (as far as I know).
> But I know that before I run psql on the backup I have
> to create the database with something like (createdb
> -T template0 dbname).  How do I make that template0?

template0 is created by initdb; you shouldn't have to create it
manually.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/manage-ag-templatedbs.html

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Michael Fuhr
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