| From: | Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | "surabhi(dot)ahuja" <surabhi(dot)ahuja(at)iiitb(dot)ac(dot)in> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: how to check if a database exists programatically |
| Date: | 2005-12-08 12:34:44 |
| Message-ID: | 1134045284.21190.4.camel@linux.site |
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Hi,
On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 14:20 +0200, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote:
> SELECT 1 from pg_database WHERE datname='abc';
Ah of course:
$ psql template1 -U postgres -c "SELECT 1 AS result FROM pg_database
WHERE datname='yapab'";
result
--------
1
(1 row)
$ psql template1 -U postgres -c "SELECT 1 AS result FROM pg_database
WHERE datname='abc'";
result
--------
(0 rows)
and you can parse this output too.
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