it's a very useful feature to have.<p>if you use Heroku Postgres Database ( production tier ), they have a fork feature as well.<p>if you are running Postgres on your own and for relatively small loads, it's quite trivial to create a copy of the db using Template<p><pre><code> CREATE DATABASE new_db TEMPLATE = old_db;
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<a href="https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/manage-ag-templatedbs.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/manage-ag-templat...</a><p>While not the responsibility of a DB vendor, it would be nice if this includes some Data anonymization/randomization option.