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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:09:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: How to query information schema from shell script
To: Jon Horsman <horshaq@gmail.com>, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
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> In my original email i forgot to mentioned i need to know if the
> database exists or not from the shell script.  If it doesn't exist i
> would then create it.  Currently i was just creating the db everytime
> our db script is run (since it doesn't hurt the db) but this generates
> the 'db already exists' log and I now have the requirement that the
> users not see that log.  ie, don't run createdb if it already exists.
> 
> In looking through the postgres docs i can see how to check if a table
> exists but not how a db exists.
> 
> Again, thanks for the help.

psql -l

Regards,

Richard Broersma Jr.