Re: Restore to a database with another name?

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:58:02 -0500, phil campaigne
<pcampaigne@charter.net> wrote:
> Scott Marlowe wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 14:28, phil campaigne wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi All,
> >>I want to move my development database (7.2.3) to my production server
> >>but the production server database has a different name.
> >>What is the procedure for restoring a database pg_dump to another
> >>machine with a different database name?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >pg_dump -h source_host source_dbname |psql -h dest_host dest_dbname
> >
> >
> >
> Hi Scott,
> Unfortunately my production machine is remote and I must transfer it via
> FTP.  How would that change your suggestion?

You break it into two separate commands at the pipe, and use
pg_restore to import it back in on the target box.


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