Re: empty a database

How about just truncating all the tables?

Dick Davies wrote:
> * Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> [0232 16:32]:
>
>>Dick Davies <rasputnik(at)hellooperator(dot)net> writes:
>>
>>>Is there a neat way to clean out a database via SQL commands?
>>>i.e. get rid of tables, sequences, integers, etc.
>>
>>>At present I'm using dropdb/createdb, but thats' far from ideal
>>>and I think it's causing postgres to do more mork than it needs to...
>>
>>Well, if you put everything into one or a few schemas then dropping
>>and recreating those schemas would do it. I suspect though that this
>>is *not* faster than dropdb/createdb.
>
>
> Thanks Tom.
>
> It's not just the speed, it's the constant deletes and creations in
> ~pgsql/data - as I said the other day, this is recreating a test db from the
> production one as part of unit tests, so this happens dozens of times a day...
>
>

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