Re: Creating DB programmatically?

I use a very simple perl program to get a list of databases and ask if you want a new one created and the desired encoding, and could add any other optional parameters.
The same is done in Webmin -

--- On Tue, 7/12/11, Jayadevan M <Jayadevan(dot)Maymala(at)ibsplc(dot)com> wrote:

From: Jayadevan M <Jayadevan(dot)Maymala(at)ibsplc(dot)com>
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Creating DB programmatically?
To: "Roy's Email" <rmw256(at)hotmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-novice-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 12:16 AM

Hello,

>

> I would like to create my DB programmatically.  I.e. If the DB
does

> not already exist, I would like to be able to create (and populate)

> it from within my application.  Is there some way to do this?
 

> Everything I see seems to require connecting to an existing DB

> before you can do anything.

If it is unix/linux, couldn't you do

[postgres(at)tcctest ~]$ psql -l | grep mydatabase

and then create one if it did not fetch any data?

If it exists, you will get something like

 mydatabase | postgres | UTF8     |
en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |

Regards,

Jayadevan

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