scrub database dump: herokudump.py cmd #225
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Run the command as:
heroku login
python manage.py herokudump iwalk-test
inside the server container with Django server up.
Where
iwalk-test
can be-staging
orprod
It'll download the appropriate database and scrub it before restoring the local dump.
It works with you current as it runs a pg_restore with a clean, so it'll overwrite the data you have currently.
Best practice is do drop what you have locally first to get a clean slate, but it's been built so that it's not necessary.
There will be use cases where you would not want to scrub:
Since that occasion is rarer, we leave that process to be manual.