Re: create database, user

Hi,

* Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> [02-03-10 19:58]:
>On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 18:23, Thorsten Haude wrote:
>> I want to create a database and a matching user for a web application.
>> I want to do all that from an SQL file but I have problems with both
>> 'create database' and 'create user'.
>>
>> - I have still not grasped how I should connect to the DBMS for things
>> like that; there is no root. Is there a document describing best
>> practices somewhere?
>
>It'll be in the docs somewhere; have you read the Administrator's Guide?
Not the whole thing, but anything I thought would be useful. Not
enough (thought) obviously.

>> - Are there any special provisions you have to follow to do create
>> database, user, tables and other object with one SQL file?
>Put all the commands into a text file, not forgetting the terminating
>semi-colons where they are needed.
I did that, and one of the problems was solved by \connect. It never
occured to me that you can use the backslash commands in a file.

The other problem is a password though. I changed one line in your
example to:
    CREATE USER junk_user encrypted password 'secret';
And it fails:
    ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "encrypted"
What's wrong here?

>Whether the above script succeeds in changing user depends on how
>pg_hba.conf is set up.  If pg_hba.conf doesn't allow the connection, the
>script will fail at the \connect.  You need the \connect, otherwise the
>table would be created in template1 rather than in the new database.
I checked, and it should work.

Thank you very much for your help!

Thorsten
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