Re: Lost my postgres database?

From: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Kevin Bailey <kbailey(at)freewayprojects(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Lost my postgres database?
Date: 2009-04-13 00:18:28
Message-ID: dcc563d10904121718p5cb5f2f1lef30f83c5999948b@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Kevin Bailey
<kbailey(at)freewayprojects(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just looking into an old 7.4 based server and the '\l' command isn't showing
> a database called 'postgres' - template0 and template1 are there.
>
> Is this expected on 7.4?  I've read the docs and can't see any mention of
> this DB.  Should this DB exist?

Yep. template1 used to be the primary database for what the purpose
the postgres database now serves. You only get the template0/1
databases in 7.4

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