On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ben <bench@silentmedia.com> writes:
>> I'm noticing a problem where autovacuum touching template1 when createdb
>> is run is making createdb fail. That's easy to work around when doing
>> things by hand (just run it again), but when running createdb with a
>> script, it's not so clear to me how to keep things working all the time.
>
> There's a fix for this in 8.3, but in existing releases about all you
> can do is make your script wait a few seconds and retry.
Can I assume createdb return non-zero in this case?