2000-11-11
createdb
1
Application
createdb
Create a new Postgres database
createdb
options
dbname
description
Inputs
-h, --host host
Specifies the hostname of the machine on which the
postmaster
is running. If host begins with a slash, it is used
as the directory for the Unix domain socket.
-p, --port port
Specifies the Internet TCP/IP port or the local Unix domain socket file
extension on which the postmaster
is listening for connections.
-U, --username username
Username to connect as.
-W, --password
Force password prompt.
-e, --echo
Echo the queries that createdb generates
and sends to the backend.
-q, --quiet
Do not display a response.
-D, --location datadir
Specifies the alternative location for the database. See also .
-T, --template template
Specifies the template database from which to build this database.
-E, --encoding encoding
Specifies the character encoding scheme to be used in this database.
dbname
Specifies the name of the database to be created. The name must be
unique among all Postgres databases in this installation.
The default is to create a database with the same name as the
current system user.
description
This optionally specifies a comment to be associated with the newly created
database.
The options -h, -p, -U,
-W, and -e are passed on literally to
.
The options -D, -T, and
-E are converted into options for the underlying
SQL command ; see there for more information
about them.
Outputs
CREATE DATABASE
The database was successfully created.
createdb: Database creation failed.
(Says it all.)
createdb: Comment creation failed. (Database was created.)
The comment/description for the database could not be created.
The database itself will have been created already. You can use the
SQL command COMMENT ON DATABASE to
create the comment later on.
If there is an error condition, the backend error message will be displayed.
See
and for possibilities.
Description
createdb creates a new Postgres
database. The user who executes this command becomes the database owner.
createdb is a shell script wrapper around the
SQL command
via
the Postgres interactive terminal
. Thus, there is nothing
special about creating databases via this or other methods. This means
that the psql program must be found by the script and that
a database server must be running at the targeted port. Also, any default
settings and environment variables available to psql
and the libpq front-end library will apply.
Usage
To create the database demo using the default
database server:
$ createdb demo
CREATE DATABASE
The response is the same as you would have gotten from running the
CREATE DATABASE SQL command.
To create the database demo using the
postmaster on host eden, port 5000, using the
LATIN1 encoding scheme with a look at the
underlying query:
$ createdb -p 5000 -h eden -E LATIN1 -e demo
CREATE DATABASE "demo" WITH ENCODING = 'LATIN1'
CREATE DATABASE