| From: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Melvin Call <melvincall979(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: New role, no database |
| Date: | 2013-05-23 21:10:00 |
| Message-ID: | CAOR=d=1fk5FDvNTHazQVyOK8jh5G1oFnx4+E7tW0gMM2Dd9PsQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Melvin Call <melvincall979(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a question for which I am unable to find an answer in the
> documentation, if y'all don't mind, I will ask here and hope for an
> answer.
>
> After installing PostgreSQL and logging in as the admin user of
> postgres, I have created a new user with the CREATEDB privilege. How
> does that user log in for the first time to create a DB? Am I required
> to create a default user DB when I create the user, or is there a way
> to log in with no default DB?
The default db is your username, so they can just run "createdb" with
no arguments. That will create a db as their unix username. For
instance if you create a user named "smarlowee" adn that's their unix
username then they can just run createdb and it will create a db named
smarlowe for them.
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