How do I create a postrgresql database using SQL's DDL on pgadmin4? - sql

Question

I'm learning DDL to create and define an SQL database with Postgresql 10.
I have the something like the following SQL code in an .sql file, and I want to input it in psql or PgAdmin 4, just to test the syntax and see the database structure:
CREATE DATABASE database;
CREATE TYPE t_name AS
( first VARCHAR(30),
last VARCHAR(60)
);
CREATE TABLE telephone_m
( tnumber VARCHAR(15) NOT NULL UNIQUE
);
CREATE TABLE people
( curp CHAR(18) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
pname t_name NOT NULL,
birth_date DATE NOT NULL,
telephone_m VARCHAR(15) REFERENCES telephone_m
);
CREATE TABLE clients
( curp CHAR(18) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
cid SERIAL NOT NULL REFERENCES cards,
clocation VARCHAR(29)
) INHERITS (people);
CREATE TABLE cards
( cid BIGSERIAL NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
curp CHAR(18) NOT NULL REFERENCES clients,
trips SMALLINT,
distance NUMERIC,
points NUMERIC
);
CREATE TABLE drivers
( curp CHAR(18) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
rfc CHAR(22) NOT NULL UNIQUE,
adress t_adress NOT NULL
) INHERITS (people);
I've tried in PgAdmin 4 making right-click on a new database -> CREATE Script, it opens Query Editor, I copy paste my code and execute it, but it returns:
ERROR: CREATE DATABASE cannot be executed from a function or multi-command string
SQL state: 25001
I've also tried using Query Tool directly from the PgAdmin tools menu with the same results.

Answer 1

The database is created just fine. But if you want to create object in the new DB, you have to connect to it. In any client, including pgAdmin4.
And you cannot run CREATE DATABASE inside of a transaction. Must be committed on it's own. Executing multiple commands at once is automatically wrapped into a single transaction in pgAdmin.
You have to execute CREATE DATABASE mydb; on its own (for instance by selecting only that line and pressing F5 while being connected to any DB, even the maintenance db "postgres". Then click on "Databases" in the object browser in the pgadmin4 main window / tab, hit F5 to refresh the view, click on the new DB, open up a new query tool with the flash icon (in a new window / tab) and execute the rest of your script there.
psql scripts manage by using the meta-command \c to connect to the new db after creating it, within the same session.
Asides:
"database" is no good name for a database.
CREATE TYPE AS (...), but just CREATE TABLE (...). No AS.
And you typically don't want to use the data type CHAR(18). See:
Any downsides of using data type "text" for storing strings?
Get sum of integers for UNIQUE ids
What is the overhead for varchar(n)?
Should I add an arbitrary length limit to VARCHAR columns?

Answer 2

There is the ; missing after the CREATE DATABASE database (and perhaps give the db a better name).