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Re: Unhappy thoughts about pg_dump and objects inherited from template1

Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>

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From: Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <janwieck@Yahoo.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-11-08T15:48:50Z
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At 10:15 8/11/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>I like
>
>	CREATE DATABASE foo WITH TEMPLATE 'template0'
>
>better than a SET command.

Just seems like we'd be forcing non-standard syntax on ourselves when/if
CREATE DATABASE becomes CREATE SCHEMA; I would assume that the two
statements would become synonymous? Since this code is only for pg_dump,
polluting CREATE DATABASE even further seems like a bad idea. No big deal,
though. 

[Minor aside: would 'FROM TEMPLATE' be better?]

Question: if I issue a "CREATE DATABASE foo WITH TEMPLATE 'my-favorite-db'"
will I just get a copy of the specified database, including data?


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