LIST-DATABASES
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Name

LIST-DATABASES — List databases matching the supplied connection spec and database type.Function

Syntax

      list-databases connection-spec &key database-type => result

Arguments and Values

connection-spec

A connection specification

database-type

A database type specifier, i.e. a keyword. This defaults to the value of *default-database-type*

result

A list of matching databases.

Description

This function returns a list of databases existing in the database system specified by database-type.

Examples

(list-databases '("localhost" "new" "dent" "dent") :database-type :postgresql)
=> ("address-book" "sql-test" "template1" "template0" "test1" "dent" "test")

Side Effects

None.

Affected by

None.

Exceptional Situations

An exception maybe thrown if the database system does not receive administrator-level authentication since function may need to read the administrative database of the database system.

See Also

create-database
destroy-database
probe-database

Notes

list-databases is a CLSQL extension.

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