Re: Command to reset entire PgSQL cluster?

On 2/10/15 12:57 PM, David G Johnston wrote:
> Felipe Gasper wrote
>> Is there a quick way to reset a PgSQL cluster to its pristine
>> state--i.e., to what initdb gives but preserving configuration
>> customizations?
>
> Not that I am aware of.
>
> If you describe your use-case then meaningful suggestions could be offered.
>

We have a lot of code that tests interaction with a PgSQL cluster on the
same server that has a live production cluster. To keep the testing
environment separate from production, we create a PgSQL cluster in a
temp directory then run tests against that.

This, as you can imagine, is pretty expensive to set up each time …
initdb is not fast! It would be nice if we could just create a single
test PgSQL cluster then wipe it clean at the end of each test.

-FG