"Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes: > pgAdmin uses template1 by default as it is the only accessible database > that we can be sure will exist. There are 2 solutions to your problem:
> 1) Change your pgAdmin connection to use a different default database. > 2) Select a different database to use as the template when creating a > new one. He shouldn't really be getting that error though, as CREATE DATABASE only complains if there is another connection *besides your own* to the template database. I think the real answer is something more along the lines of "don't run two copies of pgAdmin at once". regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org