Re: Creating DB programmatically?

From: Jayadevan M <Jayadevan.Maymala@ibsplc.com>
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Creating DB programmatically?
To: "Roy's Email" <rmw256@hotmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org, pgsql-novice-owner@postgresql.org
Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 12:16 AM

Hello,
>
> I would like to create my DB programmatically.  I.e. If the DB does
> not already exist, I would like to be able to create (and populate)
> it from within my application.  Is there some way to do this?  
> Everything I see seems to require connecting to an existing DB
> before you can do anything.

If it is unix/linux, couldn't you do
[postgres@tcctest ~]$ psql -l | grep mydatabase
and then create one if it did not fetch any data?
If it exists, you will get something like
 mydatabase | postgres | UTF8     | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |

Regards,
Jayadevan





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