Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48FBA1337E42 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:20:53 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 40233-02-4 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:20:46 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from gw.wicourts.gov (gwmta.wicourts.gov [165.219.244.99]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF2E81337CC1 for ; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:05:25 -0300 (ADT) Received: from Courts-MTA by gw.wicourts.gov with Novell_GroupWise; Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:05:25 -0500 Message-Id: <4DB830B1020000250003CF73@gw.wicourts.gov> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 8.0.1 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:05:21 -0500 From: "Kevin Grittner" To: "Fred Parkinson" , Subject: Re: Starting psql without a database? References: <4DB7EF0B020000A700017002@gwia1.abag.ca.gov> <4DB801AD020000A700017012@gwia1.abag.ca.gov> <4DB801AD020000A700017012@gwia1.abag.ca.gov> <4DB81F4E020000250003CF57@gw.wicourts.gov> <4DB80FC3020000A70001701D@gwia1.abag.ca.gov> In-Reply-To: <4DB80FC3020000A70001701D@gwia1.abag.ca.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.91 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201104/243 X-Sequence-Number: 37424 "Fred Parkinson" wrote: > Was there some way to tell from the documentation that createdb is > to run from the shell while CREATE DATABASE is run from the psql > prompt? One is in the "PostgreSQL Client Applications" section, along with psql and pg_dump. The other is in the "SQL Commands" section. Applications run in the OS shell, while SQL commands run in a database session. -Kevin