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From: aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki)
To: bfroehli@AWI-Bremerhaven.DE (Bernd Froehlich)
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Subject: Re: createdb in libpq 
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bfroehli@AWI-Bremerhaven.DE (Bernd Froehlich) writes:
> Is it somehow possible to create a new database from inside a C-program?

the trivial way is to run the usual "createdb" script using system(3)
or popen(3) or something.

the almost-as-trivial way is to look at the createdb script and do what 
it does -- attach to template1, and run a "createdb" query.
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  Paul M. Aoki          |  University of California at Berkeley
  aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU  |  Dept. of EECS, Computer Science Division (#1776) 
                        |  Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

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