create database newdb template olddb; works as well. -Chris On Tuesday 01 March 2005 05:08 pm, javier wilson wrote: > On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:30:19 -0500, Michael Romagnoli > > <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Sorry, I meant to ask about copying databases, not tables (including all > > data in the database as per below). > > you can do a pg_dump your_database>your_database.dump.sql > and then createdb to create your new database, and finally > pgsql -f your_database.dump.sql new_database > > and that's it. you should probably use -Upostgres > depending on what kind of security you use. > > javier > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org