I have 2 RDS instances with Postgres.
I need to transfer one of the databases from RDS instance A to RDS instance B.
How am I supposed to do it, if pg_dump is not accessible outside a bash shell and you can't access bash shell from an RDS instance?
Some advice would be appreciated.
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I'm trying to figure out an efficient way to copy data directly from my AWS RDS Production Postgres Instance to my AWS RDS Development Instance.
Right now I do a pg_dump on my local machine of the production instance. Then do a pg_restore on my local machine to the development RDS instance.
How can I copy the data directly from the Production RDS Postgres Instance to the Development RDS Postgres Instance?
In the Gcloud SQL Postgres database, I am currently using gcloud export and import command to create database backup in a different project. which takes a long time.
As gcloud allows us to create read replica but it creates with in the same project.
my question is?
how can i create a replica of cloud sql postgres instance in another project postgres instacne?
I am starting to use PostgreSQL and I am confused about the two ways to create a database. When I installed it the first time, the instructions said I have to create a default database with initdb /usr/local/var/postgres When I lookup my databases, I can see that I have a database called postgres. Now I am able to create a database with two other commands whereas the former is the command line script and the latter the SQL command. In the case of a "postgres" called database it would be:
createdb postgres
CREATE DATABASE postgres
Both are setting up a database in my list of databases. When I try to create another database with initdb /usr/local/var/[someDbName] though, it doesn't appear in my list of databases. So what's the difference between initdb and createdb then?
initdb is not used to create a "new database".
As documented in the manual you need it to create a "cluster" or "data directory" which then stores databases created with create database.
Quote from the manual:
Before you can do anything, you must initialize a database storage area on disk. We call this a database cluster. (The SQL standard uses the term catalog cluster.) A database cluster is a collection of databases that is managed by a single instance of a running database server
[...]
In file system terms, a database cluster is a single directory under which all data will be stored. We call this the data directory or data area
In short: initdb creates the necessary directory layout on the harddisk to be able to create and manage databases.
It's a necessary part of the installation process of a Postgres server.
Is there a way to automatically generate the database creation string for an empty database with settings from an existing database?
I created an AWS RDS postgresql database instance using the console in my browser. I selected all kind of setting in my browser and launched the instance. Now I want to replicate this database (empty) with a command for programmatic use. I would like to delete the existing RDS instance so a raw command would be preferred (no reference to another RDS) but something like:
aws create-db-instance --db-name database02 --allocated-storage 200 --engine postgres etc.
You'll need to create a snapshot of the source Database, instance or cluster and then create a new database based on that snapshot. You can delete the source database after the snapshot is complete.
aws rds create-db-snapshot
--db-snapshot-identifier mydbsnapshot
--db-instance-identifier mydb
aws rds restore-db-instance-from-db-snapshot
--db-instance-identifier mynewdbinstance
--db-snapshot-identifier mydbsnapshot
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/rds/create-db-snapshot.html
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_RestoreFromSnapshot.html
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/rds/restore-db-instance-from-db-snapshot.html
Setup --
I have a postgresql db running on AWS RDS. We access it from an EC2 instance using pgAdmin 3.
Current Scenario --
AWS takes a daily backup of the entire RDS instance as RDS snapshots which is stored for 15 days.
I take a manual backup of one important schema (all the data in schema included) using pgAdmin and then push this backup file to s3.
Question --
How do I automate this backup of a single schema (including data) in postgresql and store it on S3 (any application or script). Is there a way to automate it in pgadmin just for one schema and not the entire database.
You need to use a command line tool pg_dump:
pg_dump \
--host=myhostname.qwertyuiop.sc-moon-1.rds.amazonaws.com \
--username=myusername --dbname=mydbname \
--format=custom --file=mydbname.pg_dump
It needs to be the same major version as the database.