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  • HTTP request
  • Path parameters
  • Body parameters
  • DatabaseSpec
  • Extension
  • Response
  • CreateDatabaseMetadata
  • Status
  • Database
  • Extension
  1. API reference
  2. REST
  3. Database
  4. Create

Managed Service for PostgreSQL API, REST: Database.Create

Written by
Yandex Cloud
Updated at November 26, 2024
  • HTTP request
  • Path parameters
  • Body parameters
  • DatabaseSpec
  • Extension
  • Response
  • CreateDatabaseMetadata
  • Status
  • Database
  • Extension

Creates a new PostgreSQL database in the specified cluster.

HTTP requestHTTP request

POST https://mdb.api.cloud.yandex.net/managed-postgresql/v1/clusters/{clusterId}/databases

Path parametersPath parameters

Field

Description

clusterId

string

Required field. ID of the PostgreSQL cluster to create a database in.
To get the cluster ID use a ClusterService.List request.

Body parametersBody parameters

{
  "databaseSpec": {
    "name": "string",
    "owner": "string",
    "lcCollate": "string",
    "lcCtype": "string",
    "extensions": [
      {
        "name": "string",
        "version": "string"
      }
    ],
    "templateDb": "string",
    "deletionProtection": "boolean"
  }
}

Field

Description

databaseSpec

DatabaseSpec

Required field. Configuration of the database to create.

DatabaseSpecDatabaseSpec

Field

Description

name

string

Required field. Name of the PostgreSQL database. 1-63 characters long.

owner

string

Required field. Name of the user to be assigned as the owner of the database.
To get the list of available PostgreSQL users, make a UserService.List request.

lcCollate

string

POSIX locale for string sorting order.
Can only be set at creation time.

lcCtype

string

POSIX locale for character classification.
Can only be set at creation time.

extensions[]

Extension

PostgreSQL extensions to be enabled for the database.

templateDb

string

Name of the PostgreSQL database template.

deletionProtection

boolean

Deletion Protection inhibits deletion of the database

Default value: unspecified (inherits cluster's deletion_protection)

ExtensionExtension

Field

Description

name

string

Name of the extension, e.g. pg_trgm or pg_btree.
Extensions supported by Managed Service for PostgreSQL are listed in the Developer's Guide.

version

string

Version of the extension.

ResponseResponse

HTTP Code: 200 - OK

{
  "id": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "createdAt": "string",
  "createdBy": "string",
  "modifiedAt": "string",
  "done": "boolean",
  "metadata": {
    "clusterId": "string",
    "databaseName": "string"
  },
  // Includes only one of the fields `error`, `response`
  "error": {
    "code": "integer",
    "message": "string",
    "details": [
      "object"
    ]
  },
  "response": {
    "name": "string",
    "clusterId": "string",
    "owner": "string",
    "lcCollate": "string",
    "lcCtype": "string",
    "extensions": [
      {
        "name": "string",
        "version": "string"
      }
    ],
    "templateDb": "string",
    "deletionProtection": "boolean"
  }
  // end of the list of possible fields
}

An Operation resource. For more information, see Operation.

Field

Description

id

string

ID of the operation.

description

string

Description of the operation. 0-256 characters long.

createdAt

string (date-time)

Creation timestamp.

String in RFC3339 text format. The range of possible values is from
0001-01-01T00:00:00Z to 9999-12-31T23:59:59.999999999Z, i.e. from 0 to 9 digits for fractions of a second.

To work with values in this field, use the APIs described in the
Protocol Buffers reference.
In some languages, built-in datetime utilities do not support nanosecond precision (9 digits).

createdBy

string

ID of the user or service account who initiated the operation.

modifiedAt

string (date-time)

The time when the Operation resource was last modified.

String in RFC3339 text format. The range of possible values is from
0001-01-01T00:00:00Z to 9999-12-31T23:59:59.999999999Z, i.e. from 0 to 9 digits for fractions of a second.

To work with values in this field, use the APIs described in the
Protocol Buffers reference.
In some languages, built-in datetime utilities do not support nanosecond precision (9 digits).

done

boolean

If the value is false, it means the operation is still in progress.
If true, the operation is completed, and either error or response is available.

metadata

CreateDatabaseMetadata

Service-specific metadata associated with the operation.
It typically contains the ID of the target resource that the operation is performed on.
Any method that returns a long-running operation should document the metadata type, if any.

error

Status

The error result of the operation in case of failure or cancellation.

Includes only one of the fields error, response.

The operation result.
If done == false and there was no failure detected, neither error nor response is set.
If done == false and there was a failure detected, error is set.
If done == true, exactly one of error or response is set.

response

Database

The normal response of the operation in case of success.
If the original method returns no data on success, such as Delete,
the response is google.protobuf.Empty.
If the original method is the standard Create/Update,
the response should be the target resource of the operation.
Any method that returns a long-running operation should document the response type, if any.

Includes only one of the fields error, response.

The operation result.
If done == false and there was no failure detected, neither error nor response is set.
If done == false and there was a failure detected, error is set.
If done == true, exactly one of error or response is set.

CreateDatabaseMetadataCreateDatabaseMetadata

Field

Description

clusterId

string

ID of the PostgreSQL cluster where a database is being created.

databaseName

string

Name of the PostgreSQL database that is being created.

StatusStatus

The error result of the operation in case of failure or cancellation.

Field

Description

code

integer (int32)

Error code. An enum value of google.rpc.Code.

message

string

An error message.

details[]

object

A list of messages that carry the error details.

DatabaseDatabase

A PostgreSQL Database resource. For more information, see
the Developer's Guide.

Field

Description

name

string

Name of the database.

clusterId

string

ID of the PostgreSQL cluster that the database belongs to.

owner

string

Name of the user assigned as the owner of the database.

lcCollate

string

POSIX locale for string sorting order.
Can only be set at creation time.

lcCtype

string

POSIX locale for character classification.
Can only be set at creation time.

extensions[]

Extension

PostgreSQL extensions enabled for the database.

templateDb

string

Name of the database template.

deletionProtection

boolean

Deletion Protection inhibits deletion of the database

Default value: unspecified (inherits cluster's deletion_protection)

ExtensionExtension

Field

Description

name

string

Name of the extension, e.g. pg_trgm or pg_btree.
Extensions supported by Managed Service for PostgreSQL are listed in the Developer's Guide.

version

string

Version of the extension.

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