From: Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Creating a new database with a TEMPLATE did not work
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 02:46:54 +0000
Message-ID: <20130226024654.GA64903@anubis.morrow.me.uk> (raw)
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Quoth adrian.klaver@gmail.com (Adrian Klaver):
> On 02/25/2013 02:49 PM, mkumbale wrote:
> > Hi, I am new to PostgreSQL. I have an empty PostgreSQL DB containing tables
> > but no data. I issued the following command in PGADMIN SQL editor:
> >
> > CREATE DATABASE "NewDefault"
> > WITH OWNER = postgres
> > ENCODING = 'UTF8'
> > TEMPLATE = Default
> > TABLESPACE = pg_default
> > LC_COLLATE = 'English_United States.1252'
> > LC_CTYPE = 'English_United States.1252'
> > CONNECTION LIMIT = -1;
> >
> > Although it created the NewDefault DB, it does not contain any of the tables
> > in Default. Default was disconnected when I executed this command.
> >
> > What am I doing something wrong?
>
> So you have a database named Default?
>
> Probably not a good name because:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/sql-createdatabase.html
>
> template
> The name of the template from which to create the new database, or
> DEFAULT to use the default template (template1).
>
> So at a guess you are actually creating the new database from template1.
Also, SQL names are folded to lowercase unless they are quoted, so
TEMPLATE = Default
would refer to a database called "default" (if it weren't special syntax
for template1), but
TEMPLATE = "Default"
should find a database created with CREATE DATABASE "Default".
Ben
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