On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:35, prabakaran.a <prabakaran(dot)a(at)zohocorp(dot)com>wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> In Mysql, If we create a directory under mysql/data, mysql treated as
> database instance without starting mysql server.
> Is there any similar provision in postgres where we can create a database
> instance without starting postgresql server.
>
>
No, unfortunately there isn't (that would never work, but in theory we could
have some attach/detatch command that would do it but there is no such
thing). You can do a dump/reload of a single database, but that's the only
thing...
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