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

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 ; create database ; ' |  psql postgres