Re: Getting the command line to work

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Paul Jordan <pjordan(at)oxy(dot)edu> wrote:
> Hi. Perhaps this isn't the proper place to send this, but it's the only
> address I have. I've installed postgres and I'm trying to use the command
> prompt to create a database (PGAdmin III having failed miserably at the
> task).

Please define "failed miserably". pgAdmin should only ever fail if you
have a problem such as lack of privileges or disk space or similar,
and then should give you an appropriate error message.

> The documentation I'm working with, created by people I trust know
> what they're doing, says that I should enter the following:
>
> "createdb qf_local -U postgres -W -h localhost"

Unfortunately it seems they don't know what they're doing. Try:

createdb -U postgres -W -h localhost qf_local

Per the docs at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/app-createdb.html

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Dave Page
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