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From: "Cary B. O'Brien" <cobrien@access.digex.net>
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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Creating a database with JDBC
To: rheller@prime.cs.ohiou.edu (Richard Heller)
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 15:17:08 -0400 (EDT)
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	Richard Heller at "Sep 27, 98 01:22:14 pm"
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> Hi,
> 
> Is there any way to connect to the postgresql driver without having a
> database already in existence?  I want to have a Java program that can
> check if a database already exists and create the database if it doesn't
> exist
> 
You should be able to connect to template1 and select * from pg_database
to see what databases exist.

-- cary