Truncate all tables in postgres database

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Published on 2010-05-13T18:04:15Z Indexed on 2010/05/13 18:34 UTC
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I regularly need to delete all the data from my postgresql database before a rebuild. How would I do this directly in SQL?

At the moment I've managed to come up with a SQL statement that returns all the commands I need to execute:

SELECT 'TRUNCATE TABLE ' ||  tablename || ';' FROM pg_tables WHERE tableowner='MYUSER';

but I cant see a way to execute them programatically once I have them...

Thanks in advance

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