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# 44.14. `pg_database`

The catalog `pg_database` stores information about the available databases. Databases are created with the CREATE DATABASE command. Consult Chapter 21 for details about the meaning of some of the parameters.

Unlike most system catalogs, `pg_database` is shared across all databases of a cluster: there is only one copy of `pg_database` per cluster, not one per database.

Table 44-14. `pg_database` Columns

Name | Type | References | Description
--- | --- | --- | ---
`datname` | `name` |  | Database name
`datdba` | `oid` | ``pg_authid`.oid` | Owner of the database, usually the user who created it
`encoding` | `int4` |  | Character encoding for this database (`pg_encoding_to_char()` can translate this number to the encoding name)
`datcollate` | `name` |  | LC_COLLATE for this database
`datctype` | `name` |  | LC_CTYPE for this database
`datistemplate` | `bool` |  | If true then this database can be used in the `TEMPLATE` clause of `CREATE DATABASE` to create a new database as a clone of this one
`datallowconn` | `bool` |  | If false then no one can connect to this database. This is used to protect the `template0` database from being altered
`datconnlimit` | `int4` |  | Sets maximum number of concurrent connections that can be made to this database. -1 means no limit
`datlastsysoid` | `oid` |  | Last system OID in the database; useful particularly to pg_dump
`datfrozenxid` | `xid` |  | All transaction IDs before this one have been replaced with a permanent ("frozen") transaction ID in this database. This is used to track whether the database needs to be vacuumed in order to prevent transaction ID wraparound or to allow `pg_clog` to be shrunk. It is the minimum of the per-table `pg_class`.`relfrozenxid` values
`dattablespace` | `oid` | ``pg_tablespace`.oid` | The default tablespace for the database. Within this database, all tables for which `pg_class`.`reltablespace` is zero will be stored in this tablespace; in particular, all the non-shared system catalogs will be there
`datconfig` | `text[]` |  | Session defaults for run-time configuration variables
`datacl` | `aclitem[]` |  | Access privileges; see GRANT and REVOKE for details

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