Re: schema creation during initdb

sharath kumar wrote:
> How can I create a schema during initdb time?
> For example pg_catalog, pg_toast, information_schema are created
> during initdb time. Likewise I want to create my own schema at initdb
> time. How can i do it? Also how to create a table into this schema at
> that time itself?
>
>

This question really does not belong on -hackers, which is about
postgres development, not usage. Next time use pgsql-general.

You have misunderstood the purpose of initdb, which is to prepare a
location for running a postmaster against.

After initdb has run there are no user databases yet created (unless you
count the postgres database).

So you would need to do something like this:

initdb ...
pg_ctl start ...
createdb mytemplate
psql -c 'create schema foo' mytemplate
psql -c 'create table foo.bar ...' mytemplate

After that you can do this:

createdb --template mytemplate newdb

and the newdb will have your schema and table.

HTH

andrew