Re: removing a DB??

Hello Bruno,

you get a list of all available databases by issuing a query on
"pg_database":

select * from pg_database;

What do you mean with "internal DB's"?

Regards, Jens

Bruno Boettcher schrieb:
>
> hello,
>
> i have a nice command to create a db 'createdb', but hows when you want
> to get rid of a DB?? searched for a removedb script....
> Took me some time to read through the
> man page, find out how the command actually works, look up the SQL
> commands and find out that there's also a DROP DATABASE SQL-command...
>
> And then looking up that there'S really a dropdb command....
>
> would be really nice if in the man page there was a short ref, telling
> me about related commands.....
>
> Then the question arouse, if i can create and destroy databases from
> SQL, building my install script, it would be nice to test for the
> presence of a DB and in case of inexistence, create it on the fly.
>
> For this it would be nice if i could have found for each possible command
> in psql the SQL counterpart, notably, how to list all available DB's
> through SQL.
>
> BTW shouldn't \l display also the internal DB's ? If it would i could
> have searched for the right table....
>
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