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CreateDatabase

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1. API Description

Domain name for API request: postgres.intl.tencentcloudapi.com.

This API is used to create a database, requiring the specified database name and owner.

A maximum of 20 requests can be initiated per second for this API.

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2. Input Parameters

The following request parameter list only provides API request parameters and some common parameters. For the complete common parameter list, see Common Request Parameters.

Parameter Name Required Type Description
Action Yes String Common Params. The value used for this API: CreateDatabase.
Version Yes String Common Params. The value used for this API: 2017-03-12.
Region Yes String Common Params. For more information, please see the list of regions supported by the product. This API only supports: ap-bangkok, ap-beijing, ap-chengdu, ap-chongqing, ap-guangzhou, ap-hongkong, ap-jakarta, ap-nanjing, ap-seoul, ap-shanghai, ap-shanghai-fsi, ap-shenzhen-fsi, ap-singapore, ap-tokyo, eu-frankfurt, na-ashburn, na-siliconvalley, sa-saopaulo.
DBInstanceId Yes String Specifies the instance ID, such as postgres-6fego161. obtain through the api DescribeDBInstances.
DatabaseName Yes String Specifies the user-created database name.
Name specification: consists of letters (a-z, a-z), digits (0-9), and underscores (_), starting with a letter or underscore (_), up to 63 characters. system reserved keywords cannot be used, and 'postgres' is not allowed.
DatabaseOwner Yes String Owner of the database. obtain through the api DescribeAccounts.
Encoding No String Specifies the character encoding of the database.
Supported character sets include UTF8, LATIN1, LATIN2, WIN1250, WIN1251, WIN1252, KOI8R, EUC_JP, and EUC_KR.
Default value: UTF8.
Collate No String Specifies the database sorting rule.
Ctype No String Specifies the character category of the database.

3. Output Parameters

Parameter Name Type Description
RequestId String The unique request ID, generated by the server, will be returned for every request (if the request fails to reach the server for other reasons, the request will not obtain a RequestId). RequestId is required for locating a problem.

4. Example

Example1 Creating a Database

Input Example

POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: postgres.intl.tencentcloudapi.com
Content-Type: application/json
X-TC-Action: CreateDatabase
<Common request parameters>

{
    "DBInstanceId": "postgres-5cz25tr5",
    "DatabaseName": "mydatabase",
    "DatabaseOwner": "data_team"
}

Output Example

{
    "Response": {
        "RequestId": "28004847-7a50-4740-a536-19ee9db9ccc0"
    }
}

Example2 Creating a Database with Specified Character Encoding, Sorting Rule, and Character Category

Input Example

POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: postgres.intl.tencentcloudapi.com
Content-Type: application/json
X-TC-Action: CreateDatabase
<Common request parameters>

{
    "DBInstanceId": "postgres-5cz25tr5",
    "DatabaseName": "mydatabase",
    "DatabaseOwner": "data_team",
    "Encoding": "UTF8",
    "Collate": "zh_CN.utf8",
    "Ctype": "zh_CN.utf8"
}

Output Example

{
    "Response": {
        "RequestId": "28004847-7a50-4740-a536-19ee9db9ccc0"
    }
}

5. Developer Resources

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Command Line Interface

6. Error Code

The following only lists the error codes related to the API business logic. For other error codes, see Common Error Codes.

Error Code Description
AuthFailure.UnauthorizedOperation Authentication failed.
FailedOperation.DatabaseAccessError Failed to access database management service. Please try again later. If the problem persists, please contact customer service.
FailedOperation.DatabaseAffectedError Data operation failed. Please contact customer service.
FailedOperation.FailedOperationError Operation failed. Please try again later.
FailedOperation.PreCheckError Pre-check failed
InvalidParameter.ParameterCheckError Failed to check the parameter.
InvalidParameterValue.CharsetNotFoundError Incorrect database character set
InvalidParameterValue.InvalidAccountError Invalid account. The account name is case-insensitive, must contain 1-16 characters comprised of letters, digits, underscores, and should neither be "postgres" nor start with a digit or "pg_".
InvalidParameterValue.ParameterLengthLimitError The length of parameter exceeds the limit.
InvalidParameterValue.ParameterOutRangeError Invalid parameter values.
OperationDenied.InstanceStatusLimitError This operation cannot be performed on an instance in this status.
ResourceNotFound.InstanceNotFoundError The instance does not exist.

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