Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

Managing Odoo databases

We've seen how to create and initialize new Odoo databases from the command line. There are more commands worth knowing about for managing databases.

Although the Odoo server automatically takes care of managing databases, we can manually create PostgreSQL databases from the command line, using the following:

$ createdb MyDB

More interestingly, Odoo can also create a new database by copying an existing one, using the --template option. For this to work, the copied database can't have open connections to it, so make sure your Odoo instance is stopped and there is no other connection open for it. The command to use looks like this:

$ createdb --template=MyDB MyDB2

In fact, every time we create a database, a template ...