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How to copy a PostgreSQL database to another machine.

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I have to debug an error which seems to only happen with some set of data present in our PostgreSQL database.

I'd like to copy said database to my local machine so I can perform tests without affecting real production servers.

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On the server I dumped to a file using these commands

user@server:~$ sudo -i -u postgres
postgres@server:~$ pg_dump databasename > dumpfile

Then I copied dumpfile to my machine and executed these commands in my machine

estela@mymachine:~$ sudo -i -u postgres
postgres@mymachine:~$ psql

psql (12.6 (Ubuntu 12.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1))
Type "help" for help.

postgres=# DROP DATABASE databasename;
DROP DATABASE
postgres=# CREATE DATABASE databasename;
CREATE DATABASE
postgres=# \q
postgres@mymachine:~$ cat /tmp/dumpfile | psql databasename

It seems that it is also possible to do this in a single go without using an intermediate file.

pg_dump -C -h localhost -U serverDbUser databasename | psql -h mymachine -U estela databasename

Would not have worked for me because I have my ports closed and the DB can only be accessed locally in my machine. Still would have had to DROP the database in my machine before executing that command though.

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