Commit d98f2f99 authored by Thomas G. Lockhart's avatar Thomas G. Lockhart

Support "with location" capability for database creation.

parent 66983893
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.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/man/Attic/create_database.l,v 1.3 1997/05/19 14:23:08 momjian Exp $
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.TH "CREATE DATABASE" SQL 11/05/95 PostgreSQL PostgreSQL
.SH NAME
create database \(em create a new database
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
\fBcreate database\fP dbname
\fBcreate database\fP dbname [\fBwith location = '\fPdbpath\fB'\fP]
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
.BR "Create database"
.BR "create database"
creates a new Postgres database. The creator becomes the administrator
of the new database.
of the new database. An alternate location can be specified as either an
environment variable known to the backend server (e.g. 'PGDATA2') or as
an absolute path name (e.g. '/home/postgres/data'). In either case, the
location must be pre-configured by
.BR initarea
.SH "SEE ALSO"
createdb(1),
drop database(l),
destroydb(1),
initarea(1),
initdb(1).
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.TH CREATEDB UNIX 11/05/95 PostgreSQL PostgreSQL
.SH NAME
createdb \(em create a database
......@@ -15,9 +15,12 @@ host]
[\c
.BR -p
port]
[\c
.BR -D
location]
[dbname]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.IR Createdb
.BR createdb
creates a new database. The person who executes this command becomes
the database administrator, or DBA, for this database and is the only
person, other than the Postgres super-user, who can destroy it.
......@@ -42,12 +45,12 @@ The optional argument
.IR dbname
specifies the name of the database to be created. The name must be
unique among all Postgres databases.
.IR Dbname
.IR dbname
defaults to the value of the
.SM USER
environment variable.
.PP
.IR Createdb
.IR createdb
understands the following command-line options:
.TP 5n
.BR "-a" " system"
......@@ -59,6 +62,9 @@ to use in connecting to the
.IR postmaster
process. The default is site-specific.
.TP
.BR "-D" " dbpath"
Specifies the alternate database location for this database.
.TP
.BR "-h" " host"
Specifies the hostname of the machine on which the
.IR postmaster
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