> I think this is a very good idea. I've come up against this need once or
> twice before.. And the fact that stuff in template1 gets propagated out
> to all newly created databases can be a major pain when this happens.
>
> A shared database for this stuff would be great - then each tool could
> just create a schema for it's own stuff.
>
> How does pgAdmin deal with this today?
In phpPgAdmin the default db to connect to can be specified per-server
in the config file. It defaults to template1. It actually is not
relevant at all which db it is, so long as they can connect to it.
Chris