Hi ! I discovered this particular feature in "createdb" tool 8.0.0beta4 running on Win32 Platform:
-------------------- Cut And Paste --------------------------- c:\windows> createdb testdb; CREATE DATABASE c:\windows> psql testdb psql: FATAL: database "testdb" does not exist c:\windows> psql testdb; Welcome to psql 8.0.0beta4, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. Type: \copyright for distribution terms \h for help with SQL commands \? for help with psql commands \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query \q to quit Warning: Console codepage (850) differs from windows codepage (1252) 8-bit characters will not work correctly. See PostgreSQL documentation "Installation on Windows" for details. testdb;=# \l List of databases Name | Owner | Encoding -----------+----------+----------- template0 | postgres | SQL_ASCII template1 | postgres | SQL_ASCII testdb; | silvio | SQL_ASCII (4 rows) testdb;=# -------------------- Cut And Paste --------------------------- As you can see, createddb doesn't skip the semicolon after the database's name, so you have a db name ending with semicolon. This is not a problem really, but this happens only in this version/platform. Thanks you all guys. Regards, Silvio Scarpati ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster