On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 11:28:23AM +0200, Josef Springer wrote: > i want to automate the startup of my database. So i have to create first > an user and a database, second the schema, all with psql. But how can i > create a database with psql if no database exist ? When you first install PostgreSQL, you run initdb to initialize a cluster. This creates a few default databases and a database superuser. Then you start the backend and make connections to it using psql or some other client. See the "Server Administration" part of the documentation for more information: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/admin.html -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
