On 7/1/05, Nidhi Srivastava <nsrivastava@quark.com> wrote:
> I wish to create a database if one doesn't exist using JDBC. I tried
> connecting to template1 database and then issuing the "CREATE DATABASE test"
> command but I get the following error :
>
> ERROR: CREATE DATABASE: source database "template1"
> is being accessed by other users
>
> How do I resolve this? I'm using PostGreSQL8.0
This should work (we're doing it exactly the same way). But there can
only be one user connected at a time to the template database, it
seems, at least when using the CREATE DATABASE command. Do you have
the one of the PostgreSQL tools open, eg. pgAdmin ?
Tom
