Re: creating databases

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Hi,

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Marcel Wolf wrote:

> I am interested in running a PHP app that when it comes up it checks to
> see if the requuired database is present. If not it creates it and the
> tables required within. I was trying to do this by pg_connect
> (dbname=test) and if I got an error I would trying to use pg_query
> (CREATE test). This was disallowed because there was no link?
> What is the best way of doing this?

Then use template1 as the initial database.

if (!(at)pg_connect("dbname=test")) {
$conn = pg_connect ("dbname=template1");
pg_query ($conn, "CREATE DATABASE test");
}

will work, I think.

Regards,
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