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Duplicate a postgres DB
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To create a copy of a database, first make sure the destination doesn't exist:

psql -c "DROP DATABASE firehose_development;"

Then:

psql -c "CREATE DATABASE firehose_development WITH TEMPLATE firehose_test;"
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