>>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 9:50 AM, in message <12256258(dot)post(at)talk(dot)nabble(dot)com>,
smiley2211 <smiley2211(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
> Do I have to DROP \ recreate and load the target database (this is what I
> currently do)? is there a way to just do an IN PLACE load like in other
> RDBMS environments???
>
> pg_dump proddb | gzip > proddb_082107.sql.gz
>
> gunzip < proddb_082107.sql.gz | psql -d testdb -f -
You might want to consider using one or both of these pg_dump options:
-c, --clean clean (drop) schema prior to create
-C, --create include commands to create database in dump