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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/man7/CREATE_DATABASE.7 b/doc/src/sgml/man7/CREATE_DATABASE.7 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d58360a --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/src/sgml/man7/CREATE_DATABASE.7 @@ -0,0 +1,353 @@ +'\" t +.\" Title: CREATE DATABASE +.\" Author: The PostgreSQL Global Development Group +.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets vsnapshot <http://docbook.sf.net/> +.\" Date: 2023 +.\" Manual: PostgreSQL 15.4 Documentation +.\" Source: PostgreSQL 15.4 +.\" Language: English +.\" +.TH "CREATE DATABASE" "7" "2023" "PostgreSQL 15.4" "PostgreSQL 15.4 Documentation" +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * Define some portability stuff +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673 +.\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html +.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq +.el .ds Aq ' +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * set default formatting +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" disable hyphenation +.nh +.\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only) +.ad l +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE * +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.SH "NAME" +CREATE_DATABASE \- create a new database +.SH "SYNOPSIS" +.sp +.nf +CREATE DATABASE \fIname\fR + [ WITH ] [ OWNER [=] \fIuser_name\fR ] + [ TEMPLATE [=] \fItemplate\fR ] + [ ENCODING [=] \fIencoding\fR ] + [ STRATEGY [=] \fIstrategy\fR ] ] + [ LOCALE [=] \fIlocale\fR ] + [ LC_COLLATE [=] \fIlc_collate\fR ] + [ LC_CTYPE [=] \fIlc_ctype\fR ] + [ ICU_LOCALE [=] \fIicu_locale\fR ] + [ LOCALE_PROVIDER [=] \fIlocale_provider\fR ] + [ COLLATION_VERSION = \fIcollation_version\fR ] + [ TABLESPACE [=] \fItablespace_name\fR ] + [ ALLOW_CONNECTIONS [=] \fIallowconn\fR ] + [ CONNECTION LIMIT [=] \fIconnlimit\fR ] + [ IS_TEMPLATE [=] \fIistemplate\fR ] + [ OID [=] \fIoid\fR ] +.fi +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.PP +\fBCREATE DATABASE\fR +creates a new +PostgreSQL +database\&. +.PP +To create a database, you must be a superuser or have the special +CREATEDB +privilege\&. See +CREATE ROLE (\fBCREATE_ROLE\fR(7))\&. +.PP +By default, the new database will be created by cloning the standard system database +template1\&. A different template can be specified by writing +TEMPLATE \fIname\fR\&. In particular, by writing +TEMPLATE template0, you can create a pristine database (one where no user\-defined objects exist and where the system objects have not been altered) containing only the standard objects predefined by your version of +PostgreSQL\&. This is useful if you wish to avoid copying any installation\-local objects that might have been added to +template1\&. +.SH "PARAMETERS" +.PP +\fIname\fR +.RS 4 +The name of a database to create\&. +.RE +.PP +\fIuser_name\fR +.RS 4 +The role name of the user who will own the new database, or +DEFAULT +to use the default (namely, the user executing the command)\&. To create a database owned by another role, you must be a direct or indirect member of that role, or be a superuser\&. +.RE +.PP +\fItemplate\fR +.RS 4 +The name of the template from which to create the new database, or +DEFAULT +to use the default template (template1)\&. +.RE +.PP +\fIencoding\fR +.RS 4 +Character set encoding to use in the new database\&. Specify a string constant (e\&.g\&., +\*(AqSQL_ASCII\*(Aq), or an integer encoding number, or +DEFAULT +to use the default encoding (namely, the encoding of the template database)\&. The character sets supported by the +PostgreSQL +server are described in +Section\ \&24.3.1\&. See below for additional restrictions\&. +.RE +.PP +\fIstrategy\fR +.RS 4 +Strategy to be used in creating the new database\&. If the +WAL_LOG +strategy is used, the database will be copied block by block and each block will be separately written to the write\-ahead log\&. This is the most efficient strategy in cases where the template database is small, and therefore it is the default\&. The older +FILE_COPY +strategy is also available\&. This strategy writes a small record to the write\-ahead log for each tablespace used by the target database\&. Each such record represents copying an entire directory to a new location at the filesystem level\&. While this does reduce the write\-ahead log volume substantially, especially if the template database is large, it also forces the system to perform a checkpoint both before and after the creation of the new database\&. In some situations, this may have a noticeable negative impact on overall system performance\&. +.RE +.PP +\fIlocale\fR +.RS 4 +This is a shortcut for setting +LC_COLLATE +and +LC_CTYPE +at once\&. +.if n \{\ +.sp +.\} +.RS 4 +.it 1 an-trap +.nr an-no-space-flag 1 +.nr an-break-flag 1 +.br +.ps +1 +\fBTip\fR +.ps -1 +.br +The other locale settings +lc_messages, +lc_monetary, +lc_numeric, and +lc_time +are not fixed per database and are not set by this command\&. If you want to make them the default for a specific database, you can use +ALTER DATABASE \&.\&.\&. SET\&. +.sp .5v +.RE +.RE +.PP +\fIlc_collate\fR +.RS 4 +Collation order (LC_COLLATE) to use in the new database\&. This affects the sort order applied to strings, e\&.g\&., in queries with ORDER BY, as well as the order used in indexes on text columns\&. The default is to use the collation order of the template database\&. See below for additional restrictions\&. +.RE +.PP +\fIlc_ctype\fR +.RS 4 +Character classification (LC_CTYPE) to use in the new database\&. This affects the categorization of characters, e\&.g\&., lower, upper and digit\&. The default is to use the character classification of the template database\&. See below for additional restrictions\&. +.RE +.PP +\fIicu_locale\fR +.RS 4 +Specifies the ICU locale ID if the ICU locale provider is used\&. +.RE +.PP +\fIlocale_provider\fR +.RS 4 +Specifies the provider to use for the default collation in this database\&. Possible values are: +icu, +libc\&. +libc +is the default\&. The available choices depend on the operating system and build options\&. +.RE +.PP +\fIcollation_version\fR +.RS 4 +Specifies the collation version string to store with the database\&. Normally, this should be omitted, which will cause the version to be computed from the actual version of the database collation as provided by the operating system\&. This option is intended to be used by +\fBpg_upgrade\fR +for copying the version from an existing installation\&. +.sp +See also +ALTER DATABASE (\fBALTER_DATABASE\fR(7)) +for how to handle database collation version mismatches\&. +.RE +.PP +\fItablespace_name\fR +.RS 4 +The name of the tablespace that will be associated with the new database, or +DEFAULT +to use the template database\*(Aqs tablespace\&. This tablespace will be the default tablespace used for objects created in this database\&. See +CREATE TABLESPACE (\fBCREATE_TABLESPACE\fR(7)) +for more information\&. +.RE +.PP +\fIallowconn\fR +.RS 4 +If false then no one can connect to this database\&. The default is true, allowing connections (except as restricted by other mechanisms, such as +GRANT/REVOKE CONNECT)\&. +.RE +.PP +\fIconnlimit\fR +.RS 4 +How many concurrent connections can be made to this database\&. \-1 (the default) means no limit\&. +.RE +.PP +\fIistemplate\fR +.RS 4 +If true, then this database can be cloned by any user with +CREATEDB +privileges; if false (the default), then only superusers or the owner of the database can clone it\&. +.RE +.PP +\fIoid\fR +.RS 4 +The object identifier to be used for the new database\&. If this parameter is not specified, +PostgreSQL +will choose a suitable OID automatically\&. This parameter is primarily intended for internal use by +pg_upgrade, and only +pg_upgrade +can specify a value less than 16384\&. +.RE +.PP +Optional parameters can be written in any order, not only the order illustrated above\&. +.SH "NOTES" +.PP +\fBCREATE DATABASE\fR +cannot be executed inside a transaction block\&. +.PP +Errors along the line of +\(lqcould not initialize database directory\(rq +are most likely related to insufficient permissions on the data directory, a full disk, or other file system problems\&. +.PP +Use +\fBDROP DATABASE\fR +to remove a database\&. +.PP +The program +\fBcreatedb\fR(1) +is a wrapper program around this command, provided for convenience\&. +.PP +Database\-level configuration parameters (set via +\fBALTER DATABASE\fR) and database\-level permissions (set via +\fBGRANT\fR) are not copied from the template database\&. +.PP +Although it is possible to copy a database other than +template1 +by specifying its name as the template, this is not (yet) intended as a general\-purpose +\(lq\fBCOPY DATABASE\fR\(rq +facility\&. The principal limitation is that no other sessions can be connected to the template database while it is being copied\&. +\fBCREATE DATABASE\fR +will fail if any other connection exists when it starts; otherwise, new connections to the template database are locked out until +\fBCREATE DATABASE\fR +completes\&. See +Section\ \&23.3 +for more information\&. +.PP +The character set encoding specified for the new database must be compatible with the chosen locale settings (LC_COLLATE +and +LC_CTYPE)\&. If the locale is +C +(or equivalently +POSIX), then all encodings are allowed, but for other locale settings there is only one encoding that will work properly\&. (On Windows, however, UTF\-8 encoding can be used with any locale\&.) +\fBCREATE DATABASE\fR +will allow superusers to specify +SQL_ASCII +encoding regardless of the locale settings, but this choice is deprecated and may result in misbehavior of character\-string functions if data that is not encoding\-compatible with the locale is stored in the database\&. +.PP +The encoding and locale settings must match those of the template database, except when +template0 +is used as template\&. This is because other databases might contain data that does not match the specified encoding, or might contain indexes whose sort ordering is affected by +LC_COLLATE +and +LC_CTYPE\&. Copying such data would result in a database that is corrupt according to the new settings\&. +template0, however, is known to not contain any data or indexes that would be affected\&. +.PP +There is currently no option to use a database locale with nondeterministic comparisons (see +\fBCREATE COLLATION\fR +for an explanation)\&. If this is needed, then per\-column collations would need to be used\&. +.PP +The +CONNECTION LIMIT +option is only enforced approximately; if two new sessions start at about the same time when just one connection +\(lqslot\(rq +remains for the database, it is possible that both will fail\&. Also, the limit is not enforced against superusers or background worker processes\&. +.SH "EXAMPLES" +.PP +To create a new database: +.sp +.if n \{\ +.RS 4 +.\} +.nf +CREATE DATABASE lusiadas; +.fi +.if n \{\ +.RE +.\} +.PP +To create a database +sales +owned by user +salesapp +with a default tablespace of +salesspace: +.sp +.if n \{\ +.RS 4 +.\} +.nf +CREATE DATABASE sales OWNER salesapp TABLESPACE salesspace; +.fi +.if n \{\ +.RE +.\} +.PP +To create a database +music +with a different locale: +.sp +.if n \{\ +.RS 4 +.\} +.nf +CREATE DATABASE music + LOCALE \*(Aqsv_SE\&.utf8\*(Aq + TEMPLATE template0; +.fi +.if n \{\ +.RE +.\} +.sp +In this example, the +TEMPLATE template0 +clause is required if the specified locale is different from the one in +template1\&. (If it is not, then specifying the locale explicitly is redundant\&.) +.PP +To create a database +music2 +with a different locale and a different character set encoding: +.sp +.if n \{\ +.RS 4 +.\} +.nf +CREATE DATABASE music2 + LOCALE \*(Aqsv_SE\&.iso885915\*(Aq + ENCODING LATIN9 + TEMPLATE template0; +.fi +.if n \{\ +.RE +.\} +.sp +The specified locale and encoding settings must match, or an error will be reported\&. +.PP +Note that locale names are specific to the operating system, so that the above commands might not work in the same way everywhere\&. +.SH "COMPATIBILITY" +.PP +There is no +\fBCREATE DATABASE\fR +statement in the SQL standard\&. Databases are equivalent to catalogs, whose creation is implementation\-defined\&. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +ALTER DATABASE (\fBALTER_DATABASE\fR(7)), DROP DATABASE (\fBDROP_DATABASE\fR(7)) |