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From: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
To: Fred Parkinson <FredP@abag.ca.gov>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Starting psql without a database?
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:51:10 -0500
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"Fred Parkinson" <FredP@abag.ca.gov> wrote:
 
> I tried using the database 'postgres' which seems to be created
> during the install:
> psql postgres, which takes me to a psql prompt.  However, the
> command createdb -T DEFAULT "timecard" now results in the error
> "syntax error at or neat "createdb" with a carat pointing to the
> 'c' in 'createdb'.
 
I think you're confusing the OS command-line executable createdb:
 
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/app-createdb.html
 
and the SQL command CREATE DATABASE:
 
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/sql-createdatabase.html
 
-Kevin

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