INSTALL.pgsql.txt

// $Id: INSTALL.pgsql.txt,v 1.9 2010-04-07 15:07:58 dries Exp $

CREATE THE PostgreSQL DATABASE
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Note that the database must be created with UTF-8 (Unicode) encoding.

1. CREATE DATABASE USER

   This step is only necessary if you don't already have a user set up (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-createrole --no-createdb username

   If there are no errors then the command was successful

2. CREATE THE DRUPAL DATABASE

   This step is only necessary if you don't already have a database set up (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=UTF8 --owner=username databasename

   If there are no errors then the command was successful

3. CREATE A SCHEMA OR SCHEMAS (Optional advanced)

  Drupal will run across different schemas within your database if you so wish.
  By default, Drupal runs inside the 'public' schema but you can use $db_prefix
  inside settings.php to define a schema for Drupal to inside of or specify tables
  that are shared inside of a separate schema. Drupal will not create schemas for
  you, infact the user that Drupal runs as should not be allowed to. You'll need
  execute the SQL below as a superuser (such as a postgres user) and replace
  'drupaluser' with the username that Drupal uses to connect to PostgreSQL with
  and replace schema_name with a schema name you wish to use such as 'shared':

    CREATE SCHEMA schema_name AUTHORIZATION drupaluser;

  Do this for as many schemas as you need. See default.settings.php for how to
  set which tables use which schemas.