Note: The default database might be different for an on-premises installation than it is for a cloud provider. For example, the default database for Postgres is usually postgres.

Note: Some of the following PostgreSQL examples show spotfire-database as the name assigned to the option --spotfiredb-dbname. For this option, the value to use specifies the database name to create for Spotfire.

• The variable database-name specifies an existing database. For cloud providers, this variable is required only if you set the value of admin-username to a value other than the default postgres. Otherwise, PostgreSQL can connect to the default PostgreSQL database and create the Spotfire schema.
• For cloud providers. if you create a Spotfire database schema and specify admin-username as a value other than postgres (for example, admin), and you try to connect to a PostgreSQL database with that name, then PostgreSQL connects you to an existing database.