Re: test the existence of a database

From: Jerome Alet <alet(at)unice(dot)fr>
To: Erle Czar Mantos <erle(at)hindang(dot)msuiit(dot)edu(dot)ph>
Cc: "D'laila Pereira" <dpereira(at)students(dot)uiuc(dot)edu>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: test the existence of a database
Date: 2002-02-26 08:40:50
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.3.96.1020226094012.24221A-100000@cortex.unice.fr
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Erle Czar Mantos wrote:

> I do not see wat u r trying to mean? Do you want to test the
> existence of a database from your code or from the standard shell?
> If you want to test from your code, you can try connecting to
> that database and if your connection is null, that means there
> might be no database present.

alternatively, you can connect to template1 dans do a :

SELECT * FROM pg_database;

hth.

Jerome Alet - alet(at)unice(dot)fr - http://cortex.unice.fr/~jerome
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