On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 10:12, Jon Horsman wrote: > In my original email i forgot to mentioned i need to know if the > database exists or not from the shell script. If it doesn't exist i > would then create it. Currently i was just creating the db everytime > our db script is run (since it doesn't hurt the db) but this generates > the 'db already exists' log and I now have the requirement that the > users not see that log. ie, don't run createdb if it already exists. > > In looking through the postgres docs i can see how to check if a table > exists but not how a db exists. > > Again, thanks for the help.
Oh, and read this: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html It's a good starters manual for bash / shell programming. For more advanced tutorials, look at: www.deadman.org/bash.html www.tldp.org/LDP/abc/html/index.html ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
