Re: how to check if a database exists programatically

Hi,

On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 14:20 +0200, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote:

> SELECT 1 from pg_database WHERE datname='abc';

Ah of course:

$ psql template1 -U postgres -c "SELECT 1 AS result FROM pg_database
WHERE datname='yapab'";
 result
--------
      1
(1 row)

$ psql template1 -U postgres -c "SELECT 1 AS result FROM pg_database
WHERE datname='abc'";

 result
--------
(0 rows)

and you can parse this output too.

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