1CREATE DATABASE(7)       PostgreSQL 10.7 Documentation      CREATE DATABASE(7)
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NAME

6       CREATE_DATABASE - create a new database
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SYNOPSIS

9       CREATE DATABASE name
10           [ [ WITH ] [ OWNER [=] user_name ]
11                  [ TEMPLATE [=] template ]
12                  [ ENCODING [=] encoding ]
13                  [ LC_COLLATE [=] lc_collate ]
14                  [ LC_CTYPE [=] lc_ctype ]
15                  [ TABLESPACE [=] tablespace_name ]
16                  [ ALLOW_CONNECTIONS [=] allowconn ]
17                  [ CONNECTION LIMIT [=] connlimit ]
18                  [ IS_TEMPLATE [=] istemplate ] ]
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DESCRIPTION

21       CREATE DATABASE creates a new PostgreSQL database.
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23       To create a database, you must be a superuser or have the special
24       CREATEDB privilege. See CREATE USER (CREATE_USER(7)).
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26       By default, the new database will be created by cloning the standard
27       system database template1. A different template can be specified by
28       writing TEMPLATE name. In particular, by writing TEMPLATE template0,
29       you can create a virgin database containing only the standard objects
30       predefined by your version of PostgreSQL. This is useful if you wish to
31       avoid copying any installation-local objects that might have been added
32       to template1.
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PARAMETERS

35       name
36           The name of a database to create.
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38       user_name
39           The role name of the user who will own the new database, or DEFAULT
40           to use the default (namely, the user executing the command). To
41           create a database owned by another role, you must be a direct or
42           indirect member of that role, or be a superuser.
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44       template
45           The name of the template from which to create the new database, or
46           DEFAULT to use the default template (template1).
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48       encoding
49           Character set encoding to use in the new database. Specify a string
50           constant (e.g., 'SQL_ASCII'), or an integer encoding number, or
51           DEFAULT to use the default encoding (namely, the encoding of the
52           template database). The character sets supported by the PostgreSQL
53           server are described in Section 23.3.1. See below for additional
54           restrictions.
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56       lc_collate
57           Collation order (LC_COLLATE) to use in the new database. This
58           affects the sort order applied to strings, e.g. in queries with
59           ORDER BY, as well as the order used in indexes on text columns. The
60           default is to use the collation order of the template database. See
61           below for additional restrictions.
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63       lc_ctype
64           Character classification (LC_CTYPE) to use in the new database.
65           This affects the categorization of characters, e.g. lower, upper
66           and digit. The default is to use the character classification of
67           the template database. See below for additional restrictions.
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69       tablespace_name
70           The name of the tablespace that will be associated with the new
71           database, or DEFAULT to use the template database's tablespace.
72           This tablespace will be the default tablespace used for objects
73           created in this database. See CREATE TABLESPACE
74           (CREATE_TABLESPACE(7)) for more information.
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76       allowconn
77           If false then no one can connect to this database. The default is
78           true, allowing connections (except as restricted by other
79           mechanisms, such as GRANT/REVOKE CONNECT).
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81       connlimit
82           How many concurrent connections can be made to this database. -1
83           (the default) means no limit.
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85       istemplate
86           If true, then this database can be cloned by any user with CREATEDB
87           privileges; if false (the default), then only superusers or the
88           owner of the database can clone it.
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90       Optional parameters can be written in any order, not only the order
91       illustrated above.
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NOTES

94       CREATE DATABASE cannot be executed inside a transaction block.
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96       Errors along the line of “could not initialize database directory” are
97       most likely related to insufficient permissions on the data directory,
98       a full disk, or other file system problems.
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100       Use DROP DATABASE (DROP_DATABASE(7)) to remove a database.
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102       The program createdb(1) is a wrapper program around this command,
103       provided for convenience.
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105       Database-level configuration parameters (set via ALTER DATABASE
106       (ALTER_DATABASE(7))) are not copied from the template database.
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108       Although it is possible to copy a database other than template1 by
109       specifying its name as the template, this is not (yet) intended as a
110       general-purpose “COPY DATABASE” facility. The principal limitation is
111       that no other sessions can be connected to the template database while
112       it is being copied.  CREATE DATABASE will fail if any other connection
113       exists when it starts; otherwise, new connections to the template
114       database are locked out until CREATE DATABASE completes. See
115       Section 22.3 for more information.
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117       The character set encoding specified for the new database must be
118       compatible with the chosen locale settings (LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE).
119       If the locale is C (or equivalently POSIX), then all encodings are
120       allowed, but for other locale settings there is only one encoding that
121       will work properly. (On Windows, however, UTF-8 encoding can be used
122       with any locale.)  CREATE DATABASE will allow superusers to specify
123       SQL_ASCII encoding regardless of the locale settings, but this choice
124       is deprecated and may result in misbehavior of character-string
125       functions if data that is not encoding-compatible with the locale is
126       stored in the database.
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128       The encoding and locale settings must match those of the template
129       database, except when template0 is used as template. This is because
130       other databases might contain data that does not match the specified
131       encoding, or might contain indexes whose sort ordering is affected by
132       LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE. Copying such data would result in a database
133       that is corrupt according to the new settings.  template0, however, is
134       known to not contain any data or indexes that would be affected.
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136       The CONNECTION LIMIT option is only enforced approximately; if two new
137       sessions start at about the same time when just one connection “slot”
138       remains for the database, it is possible that both will fail. Also, the
139       limit is not enforced against superusers or background worker
140       processes.
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EXAMPLES

143       To create a new database:
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145           CREATE DATABASE lusiadas;
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147       To create a database sales owned by user salesapp with a default
148       tablespace of salesspace:
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150           CREATE DATABASE sales OWNER salesapp TABLESPACE salesspace;
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152       To create a database music with a different locale:
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154           CREATE DATABASE music
155               LC_COLLATE 'sv_SE.utf8' LC_CTYPE 'sv_SE.utf8'
156               TEMPLATE template0;
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158       In this example, the TEMPLATE template0 clause is required if the
159       specified locale is different from the one in template1. (If it is not,
160       then specifying the locale explicitly is redundant.)
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162       To create a database music2 with a different locale and a different
163       character set encoding:
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165           CREATE DATABASE music2
166               LC_COLLATE 'sv_SE.iso885915' LC_CTYPE 'sv_SE.iso885915'
167               ENCODING LATIN9
168               TEMPLATE template0;
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170       The specified locale and encoding settings must match, or an error will
171       be reported.
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173       Note that locale names are specific to the operating system, so that
174       the above commands might not work in the same way everywhere.
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COMPATIBILITY

177       There is no CREATE DATABASE statement in the SQL standard. Databases
178       are equivalent to catalogs, whose creation is implementation-defined.
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SEE ALSO

181       ALTER DATABASE (ALTER_DATABASE(7)), DROP DATABASE (DROP_DATABASE(7))
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