# Chapter 23. Managing Databases

Table of Contents

23.1. Overview

23.2. Creating a Database

23.3. Template Databases

23.4. Database Configuration

23.5. Destroying a Database

23.6. Tablespaces

Every instance of a running PostgreSQL server manages one or more databases. Databases are therefore the topmost hierarchical level for organizing SQL objects (“database objects”). This chapter describes the properties of databases, and how to create, manage, and destroy them.