Hi, I have a bunch of small dbs (levan, pictures, and a couple of others). I have had these db's over many upgrades and I have just noticed that template1 seems to be a bit munged... testuser=> \c template1 You are now connected to database "template1". template1=> \d List of relations Schema | Name | Type | Owner --------+----------------+----------+------- public | lo_shadow | table | levan public | my_description | table | levan public | person | table | levan public | person_id_seq | sequence | levan public | pics | table | levan public | pics_ident_seq | sequence | levan (6 rows) This is the same as... template1=> \c pictures You are now connected to database "pictures". pictures=> \d List of relations Schema | Name | Type | Owner --------+----------------+----------+------- public | lo_shadow | table | levan public | my_description | table | levan public | person | table | levan public | person_id_seq | sequence | levan public | pics | table | levan public | pics_ident_seq | sequence | levan (6 rows) I found this out when I tried to create a new user testuser for testing a totally none privileged user. When I recreate the testuser db using template1 I found the tables from the picture db were in the newly created db. Is it safe to simple drop the db's from the template1 db? ( I have no idea of how the tables became part of template1.) Jerry