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Last active December 27, 2019 18:21 — forked from syafiqfaiz/how-to-copy-aws-rds-to-local.md
How to copy production database on AWS RDS(postgresql) to local development database.
  1. Make a copy of the database using pg_dump
    • $ pg_dump -h <public dns> -U <my username> -f <name of dump file .sql> <name of my database>
    • you will be asked for postgressql password.
    • a dump file(.sql) will be created
  2. Clean the existing database by recreating it.
    • psql -U "<my username>" -d <some local database name> -c "DROP DATABASE <database name>;"
    • psql -U "<my username>" -d <some local database name> -c "CREATE DATABASE <database name>;"
  3. The dump file might contain references to the original user priveleges. In this case you will have to do one of the two things:
    • Create the same user locally: psql -U "<my username>" -d <database name> -c "CREATE USER <original postgresql username> SUPERUSER;"
    • Replace all mentions of the old username with a new one in your <name of dump file .sql>