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import psycopg2

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psycopg2.connect(database="test", host='localhost')


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OperationalError                          Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-4-e27d2c2c07ce> in <module>()
----> 1 psycopg2.connect(database="test", host='localhost')

/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/psycopg2-2.5.1-py2.7-macosx-10.9-intel.egg/psycopg2/__init__.pyc in connect(dsn, database, user, password, host, port, connection_factory, cursor_factory, async, **kwargs)
    162                 for (k, v) in items])
    163 
--> 164     conn = _connect(dsn, connection_factory=connection_factory, async=async)
    165     if cursor_factory is not None:
    166         conn.cursor_factory = cursor_factory

OperationalError: FATAL:  database "test" does not exist

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