Comment on What if database branching was easy?parentComments−tee-es-geeOP4moYou don’t need anything but vanilla pg and a supported file system to do it anymore; just clone the database using a template and a newish version of Postgres.Are you referring to `file_copy_method = clone` from Postgres 18? For example: https://boringsql.com/posts/instant-database-clones/I think the key limitation is:The source database can't have any active connections during cloning. This is a PostgreSQL limitation, not a filesystem one.−sastraxi4moYeah, that's the one. My use case is largely for local development, so the active connections thing isn't a limiter for me.
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Are you referring to `file_copy_method = clone` from Postgres 18? For example: https://boringsql.com/posts/instant-database-clones/
I think the key limitation is:
Yeah, that's the one. My use case is largely for local development, so the active connections thing isn't a limiter for me.