Perfect.
In this particular case, doing it from within the query is better regardless, since the query makes no sense if it doesn't start by doing this.
Thanks!
Jonathan
On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 5:25 PM Christian Grün christian.gruen@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Jonathan,
If you use the XQuery function db:copy, an existing database will simply be overwritten. The much older COPY command should by all means behave identically, so I’ve just updated to BaseX to make this happen [1,2]. You can use the command XQUERY db:copy('old', 'new') if you don’t want to wait for BaseX 9.7 (but it should only be a few days from now).
Best, Christian
[1] https://files.basex.org/releases/latest/ [2] https://docs.basex.org/wiki/Commands#COPY
On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 9:38 PM Jonathan Robie jonathan.robie@gmail.com wrote:
What's the easiest way to copy a database, whether or not there is an
existing copy with a given name?
If I load a database with CREATE DB, it replaces any existing database
with the same name.
I would like to do the same with COPY DB, but it raises an error if
there is a database with the same name. And DELETE DB raises an error if there isn't a database with that name. So what's the right way to do this?
Jonathan