On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 12:01:31AM +1100, John Hansen wrote:
> On a fresh installation of postgrsql 8.1 if you drop the
> 'postgres' database,
> psql, createdb, etc. no longer works.
>
> psql -l; ignores -dtemplate1, and createdb doesn't have such an option.
What distribution? I've never seen this "postgres" database you speak
of. It certainly not on any systems I've used. Do you have a PGDATABASE
variable in your environment?
Have a nice day,
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