can you specify the exact commands and the sequence. With this set up it should work.
how do you import the data. Vidhya On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Malcolm Warren <malc...@villeinitalia.com>wrote: > Dear All, > > > I've been using a single database for many years. > I'd now like to create a new separate database with most of the same > tables, so that I don't have to re-write my code, I'd like to just use a > different Tomcat datasource to access it. > > I had imagined this would be as simple as : > 1) using createdb, to create a database with a different name, maybe with a > different postgres user assigned to it, > 2) using a pg_dump from the original database to import the table creation. > > However it doesn't appear to be that simple. > > Let's say the old database is called database1, and I've created a new > database2. > > When I import the pg_dump into database2, it tells me that the tables > already exist (obviously it's talking about the tables in database1). > But I surely I've created a new database called database2? Why is it > stopping me from creating the same tables in the new database? > > Same sort of problem with psql: > If I run 'psql database2' then I see everything from database1 as well. > What am I missing here? > > > > Thanks for your time. > > Malcolm Warren > > > > >