On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 11:11, Jimmie H. Apsey wrote: > Why would you want to do that?
Why would I want to change ownership of a database? I could think of numerous reasons. > Why not do it an easier way and dump the database and restore it into > your new database? Because that would mean that the database would be down while I did that. The users to whom I gave ownership to the DB already had permissions on the tables in the DB. This meant no down time. > There's got to be a lot of stuff to consider when doing something as > radical as renaming a database. I didn't rename any database, nor do anything 'radical'. Please re-read my message and you'll see. This SQL query: UPDATE pg_database SET datdba = 504 WHERE datname='chris'; is obviously simpler than a pg_dump, dropdb, createdb, pg_restore. Cheers, Chris -- Christopher Murtagh Webmaster / Sysadmin Web Communications Group McGill University Montreal, Quebec Canada Tel.: (514) 398-3122 Fax: (514) 398-2017 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly