CREATE_DATABASE (l)
Creates a new database
SYNOPSIS
CREATE DATABASE name [ WITH LOCATION = 'dbpath' ]
name
The name of a database to create.
dbpath
An alternate location for the new database. See below for caveats.
CREATEDB
Message returned if the command completes successfully.
WARN: createdb: database "name" already exists.
specified already exists.
ERROR: Unable to create database directory directory
There was a problem with creating the required directory; this operation will
need permissions for the postgres user on the specified location.
DESCRIPTION
CREATE DATABASE creates a new Postgres database.
The creator becomes the administrator of the new database.
An alternate location can be specified as either an
environment variable known to the backend server
(e.g. 'PGDATA2') or, if the server is built to
allow it, as an absolute path name
(e.g. '/usr/local/pgsql/data').
In either case, the location must be pre-configured
by initlocation.
CREATE DATABASE is a Postgres
language extension.
Use DROP DATABASE to remove a database.
There are security and data integrity issues
involved with using alternate database locations
specified with absolute path names, and by default
only an environment variable known to the backend may be
specified for an alternate location.
See the Administrator's Guide for more information.
USAGE
olly=> create database lusiadas;
To create a new database in an alternate area ~/private_db:
$ mkdir private_db
$ initlocation ~/private_db
Creating Postgres database system directory /home/olly/private_db/base
$ psql olly
Welcome to the POSTGRESQL interactive sql monitor:
Please read the file COPYRIGHT for copyright terms of POSTGRESQL
type \\? for help on slash commands
type \\q to quit
type \\g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
You are currently connected to the database: template1
olly=> create database elsewhere with location = '/home/olly/private_db';
CREATEDB
COMPATIBILITY
There is no CREATE DATABASE statement in SQL92.
The equivalent command in standard SQL is CREATE SCHEMA.
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