From: Milen A. Radev <milen@radev.net>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: psql shell return codes - checking if database exists
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:10:18 +0300
Message-ID: <fu25vb$oii$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48048E3E.2090807@megafon.hr>
References: <48048E3E.2090807@megafon.hr>
Mario Splivalo написа:
> I need to check, from a bash script, if certain database exists in a
> postgres cluster. When I issue:
>
> psql -U someuser somedatabase
>
> psql returns error code 2 regardless of 'no user' or 'no database'
> condition. How could I distinguish from the two?
A workaround: add "--list" option to the command line and grep for the
database you need.
--
Milen A. Radev
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