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From: Paul M. Aoki <aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Bernd Froehlich <bfroehli@AWI-Bremerhaven.DE>
Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: createdb in libpq
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 11:46:08 -0700
Message-ID: <199407281846.LAA25673@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9407280841.AA20712@edvs1.awi-bremerhaven.de>

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.
--
  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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