In Rails, Couldn't create database for {“adapter”=>“postgresql”,

Question

I\'m trying to run rake db:create or rake db:setup but I get the following error. It\'s strange because rake db:create it\'s working f

Answer 1

Also check you don't have an open connection such as a client or an application connected to the instance. If that happen you will see this in the error

Couldn't create database for {"adapter"=>"xxxx", "database"=>"xxxx", "host"=>"localhost", "username"=>"postgres", "password"=>"xxxxx", "pool"=>5, "timeout"=>5000}
rake aborted!
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: PG::ObjectInUse: ERROR:  source database "template1" is being accessed by other users
DETAIL:  There is 1 other session using the database.