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# CREATE SERVER

## Name

CREATE SERVER -- define a new foreign server

## Synopsis

    CREATE SERVER servername [ TYPE 'servertype' ] [ VERSION 'serverversion' ]
        FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER fdwname
        [ OPTIONS ( option 'value' [, ... ] ) ]

## Description

`CREATE SERVER` defines a new foreign server. The user who defines the server becomes its owner.

A foreign server typically encapsulates connection information that a foreign-data wrapper uses to access an external data resource. Additional user-specific connection information may be specified by means of user mappings.

The server name must be unique within the database.

Creating a server requires `USAGE` privilege on the foreign-data wrapper being used.

## Parameters

`servername`

  The name of the foreign server to be created.

`servertype`

  Optional server type.

`serverversion`

  Optional server version.

`fdwname`

  The name of the foreign-data wrapper that manages the server.

`OPTIONS ( `option` '`value`' [, ... ] )`

  This clause specifies the options for the server. The options typically define the connection details of the server, but the actual names and values are dependent on the server's foreign-data wrapper.

## Notes

When using the dblink module (see Section F.8), the foreign server name can be used as an argument of the dblink_connect function to indicate the connection parameters. See also there for more examples. It is necessary to have the `USAGE` privilege on the foreign server to be able to use it in this way.

## Examples

Create a server `foo` that uses the built-in foreign-data wrapper `default`:

    CREATE SERVER foo FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER "default";

Create a server `myserver` that uses the foreign-data wrapper `pgsql`:

    CREATE SERVER myserver FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER pgsql OPTIONS (host 'foo', dbname 'foodb', port '5432');

## Compatibility

`CREATE SERVER` conforms to ISO/IEC 9075-9 (SQL/MED).

## See Also

ALTER SERVER, DROP SERVER, CREATE FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER, CREATE USER MAPPING

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