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// $Id$
CONTENTS OF THIS FILE
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* Introduction
* Installation and configuration:
- Database and user creation
- PL/pgSQL procedural language installation
- Drupal schema loading
INTRODUCTION
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This file describes how to create a PostgreSQL database for Drupal.
If you control your databases through a web-based control panel,
check its documentation, as the following instructions are for the
command line only.
INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION
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1. CREATE DATABASE USER
This step is only necessary if you don't already have a user setup
(e.g. by your host) or you want to create new user for use with Drupal
only. The following command creates a new user named "username" and
asks for a password for that user:
createuser --pwprompt --encrypted --no-adduser --no-createdb username
If everything works correctly, you'll see a "CREATE USER" notice.
2. CREATE THE DRUPAL DATABASE
This step is only necessary if you don't already have a database
setup (e.g. by your host) or you want to create new database for
use with Drupal only. The following command creates a new database
named "databasename", which is owned by previously created "username":
createdb --encoding=SQL_ASCII --owner=username databasename
If everything works correctly, you'll see a "CREATE DATABASE" notice.
3. INSTALL THE PL/pgSQL LANGUAGE
You must also install the PL/pgSQL language if it does not exist:
createlang plpgsql databasename
If everything works correctly, you won't see any messages. It is
possible that the PL/pgSQL language was already installed; if so,
running the above command would give you the following error:
createlang: language "plpgsql" is already
installed in database "databasename"
4. LOAD THE DRUPAL DATABASE SCHEMA
Once the database has been created, load the required tables into it:
psql -q -f database/database.pgsql databasename username
If everything works correctly, you won't see any messages.