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 blo         


        

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