CREATE DATABASE cannot run inside a transaction block

Question

I am working on AWS server + PostgreSQL. When I execute a query for creating the database I get an error:

CREATE DATABASE cannot run inside a transaction block 

I am working on Linux Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

How can I resolve this issue?

Answer 1

I have used turn on autocommit in PostgreSQL and it's working for me.

Here is the query to turn on the autocommit

SET AUTOCOMMIT = ON 

Note that this only works for PostgreSQL 9.4 and below

Answer 2

Note, for postgres 9.5+ you have to use:

psql -c '\set AUTOCOMMIT on' 

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But I'm going to guess, that what you really wanted to do is destroy the database and recreate it in a single command. Here you go:

printf '\set AUTOCOMMIT on\ndrop database <your_db_here>; create database <your_db_here>; ' |  psql postgres