JD, IB, TL:
Yes!!! I found the whole bunch of tables in template 1!
It's so liberating.
Thank you.
----- Original Message -----
> From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> To: s400t@yahoo.co.jp
> Cc: "pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org>
> Date: 2019/2/28, Thu 17:24
> Subject: Re: Mind of its own?
>
>& lt;s400t@yahoo.co.jp> writes:
>> I am using Postgresql 9.6, and the latest phppgadmin. OS is Debian 9.6.
>
>> 1. Created a database.
>> 2. Created tables inside that database.
>> 3. Dropped that database.
>
>> Now, what happens is when I create another database with the same name or
> different name, all those tables are already inside that database!!! I have not
> run the table create script.
>
> I think you created some tables in the "template1" database, which is
> (by default) what CREATE DATABASE clones to make a new DB. Duplicating
> its contents is considered a feature not a bug.
>
> You could manually clean out template1, or if that seems painful,
> you could drop it and recreate it by cloning template0 (see
> CREATE DATABASE's TEMPLATE option). template0 exists precisely
> to be a virgin empty database for this sort of purpose.
>
> (There is an interlock to prevent you from dropping either
> of these template databases accidentally. Overriding that is
> left as an exercise for the student.)
>
> regards, tom lane
>
