On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:49 AM, ENGEMANN, DAYSE <dayse.engemann@xxxxxx> wrote: > How can I create it as the same that I have in the other server? What you likely want here is the same database name, with the same encoding and collation. And then the global stuff, like user accounts. psql -h olddbserver postgres \l should show you the databases on the old server. Here's the output from a test db on my laptop: Name | Owner | Encoding | Collation | Ctype | Access privileges -----------+----------+-----------+-------------+-------------+----------------------- postgres | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | template0 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres : postgres=CTc/postgres template1 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres : postgres=CTc/postgres test | postgres | SQL_ASCII | C | C | Note that the test database is SQL_ASCII (anything goes) and C (byte order) collation. If I'm gonna dump this to another db server, I need to create the db on the other end to match. To do so, I'd need a statement something like this on the other db server's psql prompt: create database test with encoding 'SQL_ASCII' LC_COLLATE= 'C' LC_CTYPE='C' template template0; Note that here I've had to define the template as template0 because of the need to use a different encoding than template1. After that I'll likely need the globals from the old db: pg_dumpall --globals olddbserver will do that. You can edit it and then use psql to to pipe the output into the new server. Then you're ready for pg_dump -h oldserver dbname | psql -h newserver dbname -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin