From: | Maarten Boekhold <maartenb(at)dutepp2(dot)et(dot)tudelft(dot)nl> |
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To: | Richard Lynch <lynch(at)lscorp(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Switch database inside psql? |
Date: | 1998-08-07 09:10:29 |
Message-ID: | Pine.SUN.3.91.980807110900.13396B-100000@dutepp2.et.tudelft.nl |
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On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Richard Lynch wrote:
> I'd like to have a single file.sql that will create the same database and
> some tables on several different systems. Is it possible to 'switch' to a
> different database after one does the create database? So that tables
> created would go in the new database and not template1? Or does this
> already happen and is just not documented?... I'd be guessing a big no on
> the latter, since the psql prompt still says 'template1' after I create a
> database...
use '\connect database name' from witnin psql. Maybe you have to include a
username, don't know.
> I get an error message when I try createdb from the command line, but once
Probably because of authentication problems. You can set the PGUSER and
PGPASSWORD environment variables to use authentication always (ie. you
don;t have to specify a '-u' switch anymore).
> I've done psql -u, I can do it, so I guess if I had to do this from some
> sort of Perl/sed/awk/??? script (none of which I could write anyway), I'd
> need to know how to convince createdb that I *am* a valid database-creator,
> by golly.
Maarten
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