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     2 CREATE THE PostgreSQL DATABASE

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     5 Note that the database must be created with UTF-8 (Unicode) encoding.

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     7 1. CREATE DATABASE USER

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     9    This step is only necessary if you don't already have a user set up (e.g., by

    10    your host), or want to create a new user for use with Drupal only. The

    11    following command creates a new user named 'username' and asks for a password

    12    for that user:

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    14      createuser --pwprompt --encrypted --no-createrole --no-createdb username

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    16    If there are no errors, then the command was successful.

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    18 2. CREATE DRUPAL DATABASE

    19 

    20    This step is only necessary if you don't already have a database set up

    21    (e.g., by your host) or want to create a new database for use with Drupal

    22    only. The following command creates a new database named 'databasename',

    23    which is owned by the previously created 'username':

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    25      createdb --encoding=UTF8 --owner=username databasename

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    27    If there are no errors, then the command was successful.

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    29 3. CREATE SCHEMA OR SCHEMAS (Optional advanced step)

    30 

    31    Drupal will run across different schemas within your database if you so wish.

    32    By default, Drupal runs inside the 'public' schema but you can use $db_prefix

    33    inside settings.php to define a schema for Drupal to run inside of, or

    34    specify tables that are shared inside of a separate schema. Drupal will not

    35    create schemas for you. In fact, the user that Drupal runs as should not be

    36    allowed to do this. You'll need to execute the SQL below as a superuser,

    37    replace 'username' with the username that Drupal uses to connect to

    38    PostgreSQL, and replace 'schema_name' with a schema name you wish to use,

    39    such as 'shared':

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    41      CREATE SCHEMA schema_name AUTHORIZATION username;

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    43    Do this for as many schemas as you need. See default.settings.php for

    44    instructions on how to set which tables use which schemas.