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From Benedict Holland
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In response to Re: Copy & Re-copy of DB  (Ray O'Donnell <ray@rodonnell.ie>)
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Pg_dump does what you want but you could also set up replication. 

Thanks,
Ben

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 8:42 AM Ray O'Donnell <ray@rodonnell.ie> wrote:
On 21/01/2021 13:13, sivapostgres@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm from SQL Server now developing my current project using PG.
>
> In our earlier project(s), we used to copy the database from one server
> to another, work in another server, and re-copy it in the original
> server.   All happened easily with just transferring the two files (mdf
> & ldf) to our required server.
>
> Want to replicate the same in PG.  Is there any way to accomplish the
> same in PG ?

create database <new-db-name> template <old-db-name>

Would that do the job? You could also use pg_dump.

Ray.


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