[ckan-dev] Empty CKAN Database

[Dimitrakakis Georgios]

I don't want to mess with the database but I still believe that  
something like this would be very useful if it's possible to be  
implemented in a future release.

Best,

G.

> I don't know of any out of the box way to do this.
>
> You could perhaps try to save the details of the users from the user_list
> API endpoint, empty and re-initialize the database, and then use those
> details to re-create the users. Remember to request this as sysadmin so you
> can get all the details of the users (especially email). You would still
> need to have your users request password resets though.
>
> Otherwise, just try to save the tables from postgresql with pg_dump. You
> can specify table names for pg_dump. I'm not sure if that would cause other
> problems though.
>
>
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> On 20 November 2013 13:32, Dimitrakakis Georgios <giorgis at ucnet.uoc.gr>wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I would like to know if there is a way through paster or something
>> different to empty the CKAN database from all the groups, organizations and
>> datasets (including the private ones) but leave the users intact.
>>
>> I do not want to empty and re-initialize the database! I just want to
>> empty everything and leave the users so that the can start adding
>> information from scratch.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> G.
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