"Fred Parkinson" <fr...@abag.ca.gov> wrote:
 
> Was there some way to tell from the documentation that createdb is
> to run from the shell while CREATE DATABASE is run from the psql
> prompt?
 
One is in the "PostgreSQL Client Applications" section, along with
psql and pg_dump.  The other is in the "SQL Commands" section. 
Applications run in the OS shell, while SQL commands run in a
database session.
 
-Kevin

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