CREATE-TABLE — Create a database table.Function
nameThe name of the table as a string, symbol or SQL expression.
databaseA database object which defaults to *default-database*.
descriptionA list.
constraints
A string, a list of strings or NIL.
transactions
A Boolean. The default value is T.
Creates a table called name, which
may be a string, symbol or SQL table identifier, in
database which defaults to
*default-database*. description
is a list whose elements are lists containing the attribute
names, types, and other constraints such as not-null or
primary-key for each column in the table.
constraints is a string representing an
SQL table constraint expression or a list of such strings.
With MySQL databases, if transactions
is T an InnoDB table is created which supports transactions.
(create-table [foo]
'(([id] integer)
([height] float)
([name] (string 24))
([comments] longchar)))
=>
(table-exists-p [foo])
=> T
(create-table [foo] '(([bar] integer :not-null :unique :primary-key)
([baz] string :not-null :unique)))
=>
(table-exists-p [foo])
=> T
(create-table [foo] '(([bar] integer :not-null) ([baz] string :not-null))
:constraints '("UNIQUE (bar,baz)" "PRIMARY KEY (bar)"))
=>
(table-exists-p [foo])
=> T