Commit c709b113 authored by Bruce Momjian's avatar Bruce Momjian

doc: improve createdb example

The previous example could error out due to encoding mismatches;  use
-T/template instead.

Reported-by: Jason O'Donnell
parent aa740b59
......@@ -363,11 +363,11 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
<para>
To create the database <literal>demo</literal> using the
server on host <literal>eden</>, port 5000, using the
<literal>LATIN1</literal> encoding scheme with a look at the
underlying command:
<literal>template0</literal> template database, here is the
command-line command and the underlying SQL command:
<screen>
<prompt>$ </prompt><userinput>createdb -p 5000 -h eden -E LATIN1 -e demo</userinput>
<computeroutput>CREATE DATABASE demo ENCODING 'LATIN1';</computeroutput>
<prompt>$ </prompt><userinput>createdb -p 5000 -h eden -T template0 -e demo</userinput>
<computeroutput>CREATE DATABASE demo TEMPLATE template0;</computeroutput>
</screen></para>
</refsect1>
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