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>CREATE DATABASE</H1
><DIV
CLASS="REFNAMEDIV"
><A
NAME="AEN51965"
></A
><H2
>Name</H2
>CREATE DATABASE -- create a new database</DIV
><A
NAME="AEN51968"
></A
><DIV
CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV"
><A
NAME="AEN51970"
></A
><H2
>Synopsis</H2
><PRE
CLASS="SYNOPSIS"
>CREATE DATABASE <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>name</I
></TT
>
[ [ WITH ] [ OWNER [=] <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>dbowner</I
></TT
> ]
[ TEMPLATE [=] <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>template</I
></TT
> ]
[ ENCODING [=] <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>encoding</I
></TT
> ]
[ TABLESPACE [=] <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>tablespace</I
></TT
> ]
[ CONNECTION LIMIT [=] <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>connlimit</I
></TT
> ] ]</PRE
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT1"
><A
NAME="AEN51978"
></A
><H2
>Description</H2
><P
> <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>CREATE DATABASE</TT
> creates a new
<SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
> database.
</P
><P
> To create a database, you must be a superuser or have the special
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>CREATEDB</TT
> privilege.
See <A
HREF="sql-createuser.html"
><I
>CREATE USER</I
></A
>.
</P
><P
> Normally, the creator becomes the owner of the new database.
Superusers can create databases owned by other users, by using the
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>OWNER</TT
> clause. They can even create databases owned by
users with no special privileges. Non-superusers with <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>CREATEDB</TT
>
privilege can only create databases owned by themselves.
</P
><P
> By default, the new database will be created by cloning the standard
system database <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>template1</TT
>. A different template can be
specified by writing <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>TEMPLATE
<TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>name</I
></TT
></TT
>. In particular,
by writing <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>TEMPLATE template0</TT
>, you can create a virgin
database containing only the standard objects predefined by your
version of <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
>. This is useful
if you wish to avoid copying
any installation-local objects that might have been added to
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>template1</TT
>.
</P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT1"
><A
NAME="AEN51996"
></A
><H2
>Parameters</H2
><P
></P
><DIV
CLASS="VARIABLELIST"
><DL
><DT
><TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>name</I
></TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> The name of a database to create.
</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>dbowner</I
></TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> The name of the database user who will own the new database,
or <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>DEFAULT</TT
> to use the default (namely, the
user executing the command).
</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>template</I
></TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> The name of the template from which to create the new database,
or <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>DEFAULT</TT
> to use the default template
(<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>template1</TT
>).
</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>encoding</I
></TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> Character set encoding to use in the new database. Specify
a string constant (e.g., <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>'SQL_ASCII'</TT
>),
or an integer encoding number, or <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>DEFAULT</TT
>
to use the default encoding (namely, the encoding of the
template database). The character sets supported by the
<SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
> server are described in
<A
HREF="multibyte.html#MULTIBYTE-CHARSET-SUPPORTED"
>Section 22.2.1</A
>. See below for
additional restrictions.
</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>tablespace</I
></TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> The name of the tablespace that will be associated with the
new database, or <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>DEFAULT</TT
> to use the
template database's tablespace. This
tablespace will be the default tablespace used for objects
created in this database. See
<A
HREF="sql-createtablespace.html"
><I
>CREATE TABLESPACE</I
></A
>
for more information.
</P
></DD
><DT
><TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>connlimit</I
></TT
></DT
><DD
><P
> How many concurrent connections can be made
to this database. -1 (the default) means no limit.
</P
></DD
></DL
></DIV
><P
> Optional parameters can be written in any order, not only the order
illustrated above.
</P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT1"
><A
NAME="AEN52039"
></A
><H2
>Notes</H2
><P
> <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>CREATE DATABASE</TT
> cannot be executed inside a transaction
block.
</P
><P
> Errors along the line of <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"could not initialize database directory"</SPAN
>
are most likely related to insufficient permissions on the data
directory, a full disk, or other file system problems.
</P
><P
> Use <A
HREF="sql-dropdatabase.html"
><I
>DROP DATABASE</I
></A
> to remove a database.
</P
><P
> The program <A
HREF="app-createdb.html"
><I
><I
>createdb</I
></I
></A
> is a
wrapper program around this command, provided for convenience.
</P
><P
> Although it is possible to copy a database other than <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>template1</TT
>
by specifying its name as the template, this is not (yet) intended as
a general-purpose <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"<TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>COPY DATABASE</TT
>"</SPAN
> facility.
The principal limitation is that no other sessions can be connected to
the template database while it is being copied. <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>CREATE
DATABASE</TT
> will fail if any other connection exists when it starts;
otherwise, new connections to the template database are locked out
until <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>CREATE DATABASE</TT
> completes.
See <A
HREF="manage-ag-templatedbs.html"
>Section 20.3</A
> for more information.
</P
><P
> Any character set encoding specified for the new database must be
compatible with the server's <TT
CLASS="ENVAR"
>LC_CTYPE</TT
> locale setting.
If <TT
CLASS="ENVAR"
>LC_CTYPE</TT
> is <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>C</TT
> (or equivalently
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>POSIX</TT
>), then all encodings are allowed, but for other
locale settings there is only one encoding that will work properly,
and so the apparent freedom to specify an encoding is illusory if
you didn't initialize the database cluster in <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>C</TT
> locale.
<TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>CREATE DATABASE</TT
> will allow superusers to specify
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>SQL_ASCII</TT
> encoding regardless of the locale setting,
but this choice is deprecated and may result in misbehavior of
character-string functions if data that is not encoding-compatible
with the locale is stored in the database.
</P
><P
> The <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>CONNECTION LIMIT</TT
> option is only enforced approximately;
if two new sessions start at about the same time when just one
connection <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"slot"</SPAN
> remains for the database, it is possible that
both will fail. Also, the limit is not enforced against superusers.
</P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT1"
><A
NAME="AEN52067"
></A
><H2
>Examples</H2
><P
> To create a new database:
</P><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>CREATE DATABASE lusiadas;</PRE
><P>
</P
><P
> To create a database <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>sales</TT
> owned by user <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>salesapp</TT
>
with a default tablespace of <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>salesspace</TT
>:
</P><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>CREATE DATABASE sales OWNER salesapp TABLESPACE salesspace;</PRE
><P>
</P
><P
> To create a database <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>music</TT
> which supports the ISO-8859-1
character set:
</P><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>CREATE DATABASE music ENCODING 'LATIN1';</PRE
><P>
</P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT1"
><A
NAME="AEN52079"
></A
><H2
>Compatibility</H2
><P
> There is no <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>CREATE DATABASE</TT
> statement in the SQL
standard. Databases are equivalent to catalogs, whose creation is
implementation-defined.
</P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="REFSECT1"
><A
NAME="AEN52083"
></A
><H2
>See Also</H2
><A
HREF="sql-alterdatabase.html"
><I
>ALTER DATABASE</I
></A
>, <A
HREF="sql-dropdatabase.html"
><I
>DROP DATABASE</I
></A
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