create-database
Create a child database in the current database.
Description
The create-database
command creates a child database in the
current database, with the name that you specify. If you don’t pass any
options at the command line, Fauna uses the default options
in the fauna-shell
configuration file.
Is not possible to use this command to create a parent or peer database. To create a database outside of the current database, use the Fauna Dashboard. |
Options
Option | Description |
---|---|
|
Optional Fauna server domain, that is, the hostname where
Fauna is running. Defaults to |
|
Optional name of the endpoint to use for the command. |
|
Optional connection port. Defaults to 8443. |
|
Optional connection scheme. Must be one of |
|
Optional secret to use. A secret authenticates your connection to Fauna, and connects you to a database. |
|
Optional connection timeout, an integer number of milliseconds.
When the interval has elapsed, The default is zero, which means that |
|
Not supported. |
|
Not supported. |
Examples
Create a database called my-test-db
:
$ fauna create-database my-test-db
creating database my-test-db
created database 'my-test-db'
To start a shell with your new database, run:
fauna shell 'my-test-db'
Or, to create an application key for your database, run:
fauna create-key 'my-test-db'
Now, when you run fauna shell
and query for a list of databases, you
can see that the child database production
is listed:
$ fauna shell
Connected to https://db.fauna.com:443
Type Ctrl+D or .exit to exit the shell
> Database.all()
{
data: [
{
name: "my-test-db",
coll: Database,
ts: Time("2023-08-30T21:42:29.200Z"),
global_id: "yw3jf8si4yrrn"
}
]
}
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