Re: Lost my postgres database? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

Tom Lane wrote:

Kevin Bailey <kbailey@freewayprojects.com> writes: 

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?   

Yes.  We didn't start creating a 'postgres' database by default until
8.1 or thereabouts.
		regards, tom lane
 

Thanks for confirming that - your earlier point RE 7.4 being dropped soon was noted and we'll put plans into place to migrate the server.

Cheers,

Kevin