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NAME
  CREATE DATABASE - create a new database

SYNOPSIS
  CREATE DATABASE name
      [ [ WITH ] [ OWNER [=] dbowner ]
	     [ TEMPLATE [=] template ]
	     [ ENCODING [=] encoding ]
	     [ TABLESPACE [=] tablespace ] ]

DESCRIPTION
  CREATE DATABASE creates a new PostgreSQL database.

  To create a database, you must be a superuser or have the special CREATEDB
  privilege.  See CREATE USER [create_user(5)].

  Normally, the creator becomes the owner of the new database.	Superusers
  can create databases owned by other users using the OWNER clause. They can
  even create databases owned by users with no special privileges. Non-
  superusers with CREATEDB privilege can only create databases owned by
  themselves.

  By default, the new database will be created by cloning the standard system
  database template1. A different template can be specified by writing
  TEMPLATE name. In particular, by writing TEMPLATE template0, you can create
  a virgin database 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 may have been added to template1.

PARAMETERS
  name The name of a database to create.

  dbowner
       The name of the database user who will own the new database, or
       DEFAULT to use the default (namely, the user executing the command).

  template
       The name of the template from which to create the new database, or
       DEFAULT to use the default template (template1).

  encoding
       Character set encoding to use in the new database. Specify a string
       constant (e.g., 'SQL_ASCII'), or an integer encoding number, or
       DEFAULT to use the default encoding. The character sets supported by
       the PostgreSQL server are described in the documentation.

  tablespace
       The name of the tablespace that will be associated with the new
       database, or DEFAULT to use the template database's tablespace. This
       tablespace will be the default tablespace used for objects created in
       this database. See CREATE TABLESPACE [create_tablespace(5)] for more
       information.

  Optional parameters can be written in any order, not only the order
  illustrated above.

NOTES
  CREATE DATABASE cannot be executed inside a transaction block.

  Errors along the line of ``could not initialize database directory'' are
  most likely related to insufficient permissions on the data directory, a
  full disk, or other file system problems.

  Use DROP DATABASE [drop_database(5)] to remove a database.

  The program createdb [createdb(1)] is a wrapper program around this
  command, provided for convenience.

  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 ``COPY DATABASE'' facility.  We recommend that databases
  used as templates be treated as read-only.  See the documentation for more
  information.

EXAMPLES
  To create a new database:

  CREATE DATABASE lusiadas;

  To create a database sales owned by user salesapp with a default tablespace
  of salesspace:

  CREATE DATABASE sales OWNER salesapp TABLESPACE salesspace;

  To create a database music which supports the ISO-8859-1 character set:

  CREATE DATABASE music ENCODING 'LATIN1';

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

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