Creates a new Spanner database and starts to prepare it for serving. The returned long-running operation will have a name of the format<database_name>/operations/<operationId>and can be used to track preparation of the database. The metadata field type isCreateDatabaseMetadata. The response field type isDatabase, if successful.
Required. ACREATE DATABASEstatement, which specifies the ID of the new database. The database ID must conform to the regular expression[a-z][a-z0-9_\-]*[a-z0-9]and be between 2 and 30 characters in length. If the database ID is a reserved word or if it contains a hyphen, the database ID must be enclosed in backticks (`).
extraStatements[]
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Optional. A list of DDL statements to run inside the newly created database. Statements can create tables, indexes, etc. These statements execute atomically with the creation of the database: if there is an error in any statement, the database is not created.
Optional. The encryption configuration for the database. If this field is not specified, Cloud Spanner will encrypt/decrypt all data at rest using Google default encryption.
Optional. Proto descriptors used byCREATE/ALTER PROTO BUNDLEstatements in 'extraStatements'. Contains a protobuf-serializedgoogle.protobuf.FileDescriptorSetdescriptor set. To generate it,installand runprotocwith --include_imports and --descriptor_set_out. For example, to generate for moon/shot/app.proto, run
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