"Gnanakumar" <gnanam(at)zoniac(dot)com> wrote:
> I connect to our database which is hosted remotely using PuTTY
> thro SSH protocol.
> my Internet got disconnected in the middle,
> so database cloning was also stuck in the middle.
> 4. Considering this Internet disconnection problem, what is the
> safest way to clone a database using CREATE DATABASE WITH TEMPLATE
> command, so that this will not happen in the future?
You putty to the server and run psql from a shell on the database
server?
If so, try putting the word "nohup" in front of "psql" -- that tells
the program to keep running even if the connection is lost. (It is
short for "no hangup", I believe.)
On the other questions, I suspect that you'd be OK to delete the
partial database, as long as it doesn't show up in pg_database. A
command which doesn't run to completion is always *supposed* to
leave the database cluster in a good state. It never hurts to make
sure you've got a good backup before trying anything unusual,
however.
-Kevin