Re: Dump & Load a database???

>>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at  9:50 AM, in message <12256258.post@talk.nabble.com>,
smiley2211 <smiley2211@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Do I have to DROP \ recreate and load the target database (this is what I
> currently do)?  is there a way to just do an IN PLACE load like in other
> RDBMS environments???
>
> pg_dump proddb | gzip > proddb_082107.sql.gz
>
> gunzip < proddb_082107.sql.gz | psql -d testdb -f -

You might want to consider using one or both of these pg_dump options:

  -c, --clean                 clean (drop) schema prior to create
  -C, --create                include commands to create database in dump