[postgis-users] Restore of DB failing

[Tim De Chant]

Thanks all for the help.  Late yesterday I made sure that there were  
no connections to template1 (save my own) and ran the script.  Ran  
fine.  All seems well.  Thanks again.

Tim

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Tim De Chant
     University of California, Berkeley
     Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
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     Berkeley, CA 94720-3114
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On Sep 19, 2006, at 2:47 AM, Markus Schaber wrote:

> Hi, Tim,
>
> Markus Schaber wrote:
>
>> PostgreSQL tries the template1 database by default when creating a  
>> new
>> database. However, this won't work when there are any connections to
>> that database (other than the one issuing createdb itsself).
>
> This statement is somehow confusing.
>
> I wanted to say that, by default, PostgreSQL copies the template1
> database when creating a new database. As this copying happens on the
> file system level, it needs a global lock on that source database.
>
> HTH,
> Markus
>
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