On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Scott Mead<scott.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:26 PM, <donghe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > I've backed up my DB via 'pg_dump dbname' using no options. In order to >> > restore it via psql, do I first need to drop the db instance and >> > recreate >> > it? >> > >> > Thanks in advance for your help. >> > >> > -Mike >> > >> > >> > >> yes, you have to drop the original db, then use psql -f to restore it. > > You don't have to drop it, you can create another db by any other name and > re-run the sql file there. The only time you have to worry is if you use > the -C (--create) option to pg_dump. This would actually issue a 'create > database' command in the sql dump. But for you, you can restore to another > database if you would like. That being said, if this is production, I would > be careful to not 'accidentally' run the sql file against the wrong > database, so for your own sanity, you may want to just drop the db. But > there's no *requirement* that you do so. If you've got the space, an easy trick is to rename the old db to something else, create a new one in its place and restore to that. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
