Re: Create Database Question - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From norman
Subject Re: Create Database Question
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Msg-id 20061027171023.57803.qmail@web26502.mail.ukl.yahoo.com
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In response to Create Database Question  ("Greg Quinn" <greg@officium.co.za>)
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You have to create the database first and then run your newdb.sql

# createdb -U dbuser dbname
CREATE DATABASE
# psql –U dbuser dbname < newdb.sql

Norman


Greg Quinn <greg@officium.co.za> wrote:
I am trying to create a database with a table…
 
i.e
 
create database myNewDb;
 
CREATE TABLE servers (
    serverid character varying(60) NOT NULL,
    companyid character varying(60) NOT NULL,
    servername character varying(50) NOT NULL,
    companyname character varying(50) NOT NULL
) WITHOUT OIDS;
 
Cool. The problem is, if I run this SQL command, from within another database instance, it tries to create the table for that database, and not for the  myNewDb database.
How do I modify the query.
 
I know SQL Server has something like…
 
Using [myNewDb]
 
CREATE TABLE …

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