Re: Cleaning up template 1

Josh Berkus wrote:

>Folks,
>
>Due to an accident with a script, I created about 200 objects in the
> template1 database instead of the database for which they were
> intended.  
>I am now faced with either deleting each of these object individually,
> or dumping my whole postgresql installation and re-installing each
> user database, one at a time.
>
If this is 7.2 you should be able to drop template1 and do create 
database template1 from template0.  

DROP DATABASE template1;
CREATE DATABASE template1 WITH TEMPLATE=template0;

Check first with another installation as I'm not too sure about the 
ramifications.

>
>
>Can anyone suggest any shortcuts for fixing this problem?
>
>-Josh
>
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