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Create Database from a Template

Today I got to see Postgres' createdb invoked with a specified template, as such:

$ createdb -T prod_dump myapp_development

The -T feature flag corresponds to the TEMPLATE modifier in a SQL CREATE DATABASE statement. In the example above, this will create myapp_development that is a deep clone (structure and data) of prod_dump.

For more info, see:

$ man createdb

and:

$ psql
user=# \h create database;

h/t Brian Dunn

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