On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 6:11 AM, John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com> wrote: > its also possible some management software might use it as a default place > to connect so they can get a list of databases or whatever .
This is probably the most common case for continuos access to template1.
Or if you are using pgpool for connection pooling/load balancing, it might connect to template1 and do health checks.