Settings for Creating a New Database in PostgreSQL

I wanted to quickly create a new database via pgAdmin III, so I used the following properties

Note: initdb (which ran during step 6 of the installation process) creates two initial databases, namely postgres and template1. Also, the cluster created by initdb also comes with two templates (template0 and template1). template0 is a backup for template1.

Setting	Value	Description
Owner:	postgres	I assume postgres refers to the database superuser, not the Windows login.
Encoding:	UTF8	Because a PostgreSQL dialog box suggested it would be most flexible in case other clients decided to access the data (instead of SQL_ASCII)
Template:	`template1`	schema extensions and objects are usually loaded into template1
Tablespace:	pg_default	The pg_default tablespace is the default tablespace of the template1 and template0 databases (and, therefore, will be the default tablespace for other databases as well, unless overridden by a TABLESPACE clause in CREATE DATABASE).Tablespaces in PostgreSQL allow database administrators to define locations in the file system where the files representing database objects can be stored. Two tablespaces are automatically created by initdb. The pg_global tablespace is used for shared system catalogs. The `pg_default` (described above) One of the things that the tablespace defines is the file path for the data as shown with this command: CREATE TABLESPACE fastspace LOCATION ‘/mnt/sda1/postgresql/data’;