Re: What Could Cause This Behavior?

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Stephan Szabo wrote:

> Did you put a semicolon at the end of the command?  I get a
> ERROR:  syntax error at or near "username" at character 26
> LINE 1: create database contacts username=sszabo

Stephan,

   No, I did not put a semicolon there. I also received no error message, just
the prompt. See the sample session I just posted in response to Michael's
message.

> psql defaults to connecting to a database of the same name as the user when
> no database name is given.

   I now understand this.

Thanks,

Rich

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