Odoo 10 Development Essentials

Initializing a new Odoo database

To be able to create a new database, your user must be a PostgreSQL superuser. The following command creates a PostgreSQL superuser for the current Unix user:

$ sudo createuser --superuser $(whoami)

To create a new database, use the createdb command. Let's create a demo database:

$ createdb demo

To initialize this database with the Odoo data schema, we should run Odoo on the empty database using the -d option:

$ ~/odoo-dev/odoo/odoo-bin -d demo

This will take a couple of minutes to initialize a demo database, and it will end with an INFO log message, Modules loaded.

Note

Note that it might not be the last log message, and it can be in the last three or four lines. With this, the server will be ready to listen to ...