Question

I am just learning sql and starting with PostgreSQL. Here is what I am trying to do:

psql postgres
CREATE DATABASE newdb;

Then I want to do something like this (in the same psql session)

CONNECT DATABASE newdb;

Of course this doesn’t work. But after doing the statement I should be able to do something like:

CREATE TABLE newtable

And “newtable” should appear in the newdb database. I feel like there’s something simple that I’m missing.

Answer 1

On the shell you just do \c for connecting:

\c newdb