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 -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/