[email protected] wrote:
I'm sorry, I'm confused by your reply. I may have said "table" when I
meant "database". I believe it absolutely *does* make sense to
connect without specifying a database first. What if you hit that
edge case where there are in fact no databases? I suppose you could
always run "createdb" just in case before you do anything else, but
that seems counterintuitive.
that 'edge case' is one in which postgres isn't running. you have to
run initdb to initialize the database cluster before you can start the
postmaster. initdb creates template0, template1, and, in 8.x and newer,
postgres databases
the postgres database administrator account can do...
$ psql -l
to list all databases, or...
$ psql
....
postgres=# \l
or, in sql, while connected to {template1 | template0 | postgres | ... }
select datname,... from pg_catalog.pg_database;
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