Re: Creating DB programmatically?

This is on Windows, I'm afraid.

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To: rmw256(at)hotmail(dot)com
CC: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org; pgsql-novice-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] Creating DB programmatically?
From: Jayadevan(dot)Maymala(at)ibsplc(dot)com
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:46:01 +0530

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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