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