Thread: Creating a new database with a TEMPLATE did not work

Creating a new database with a TEMPLATE did not work

From
mkumbale
Date:
Hi, I am new to PostgreSQL.  I have an empty PostgreSQL DB containing tables
but no data.  I issued the following command in PGADMIN SQL editor:

CREATE DATABASE "NewDefault" WITH OWNER = postgres      ENCODING = 'UTF8'      TEMPLATE = Default      TABLESPACE =
pg_default     LC_COLLATE = 'English_United States.1252'      LC_CTYPE = 'English_United States.1252'      CONNECTION
LIMIT= -1;
 

Although it created the NewDefault DB, it does not contain any of the tables
in Default.  Default was disconnected when I executed this command.  

What am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,
Murali



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Re: Creating a new database with a TEMPLATE did not work

From
Adrian Klaver
Date:
On 02/25/2013 02:49 PM, mkumbale wrote:
> Hi, I am new to PostgreSQL.  I have an empty PostgreSQL DB containing tables
> but no data.  I issued the following command in PGADMIN SQL editor:
>
> CREATE DATABASE "NewDefault"
>    WITH OWNER = postgres
>         ENCODING = 'UTF8'
>         TEMPLATE = Default
>         TABLESPACE = pg_default
>         LC_COLLATE = 'English_United States.1252'
>         LC_CTYPE = 'English_United States.1252'
>         CONNECTION LIMIT = -1;
>
> Although it created the NewDefault DB, it does not contain any of the tables
> in Default.  Default was disconnected when I executed this command.
>
> What am I doing something wrong?

So you have a database named Default?

Probably not a good name because:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/sql-createdatabase.html

template
The name of the template from which to create the new database, or 
DEFAULT to use the default template (template1).

So at a guess you are actually creating the new database from template1.

>
> Thanks,
> Murali
>
>
>
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Re: Creating a new database with a TEMPLATE did not work

From
Ben Morrow
Date:
Quoth adrian.klaver@gmail.com (Adrian Klaver):
> On 02/25/2013 02:49 PM, mkumbale wrote:
> > Hi, I am new to PostgreSQL.  I have an empty PostgreSQL DB containing tables
> > but no data.  I issued the following command in PGADMIN SQL editor:
> >
> > CREATE DATABASE "NewDefault"
> >    WITH OWNER = postgres
> >         ENCODING = 'UTF8'
> >         TEMPLATE = Default
> >         TABLESPACE = pg_default
> >         LC_COLLATE = 'English_United States.1252'
> >         LC_CTYPE = 'English_United States.1252'
> >         CONNECTION LIMIT = -1;
> >
> > Although it created the NewDefault DB, it does not contain any of the tables
> > in Default.  Default was disconnected when I executed this command.
> >
> > What am I doing something wrong?
> 
> So you have a database named Default?
> 
> Probably not a good name because:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/sql-createdatabase.html
> 
> template
> The name of the template from which to create the new database, or 
> DEFAULT to use the default template (template1).
> 
> So at a guess you are actually creating the new database from template1.

Also, SQL names are folded to lowercase unless they are quoted, so
   TEMPLATE = Default

would refer to a database called "default" (if it weren't special syntax
for template1), but
   TEMPLATE = "Default"

should find a database created with CREATE DATABASE "Default".

Ben




Re: Creating a new database with a TEMPLATE did not work

From
mkumbale
Date:
Adrian:

Thanks for the prompt reply.  I was able to create a new DB by renaming
Default to another name.  This was a carry over from our project which was
previously using SQLExpress.  

Thanks again for the reply.

Regards,
Murali



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