Psql

Connection

tobiasco@main:/root$ psql
psql: FATAL:  database "tobiasco" does not exist

Who asked or claimed that?

tobiasco@main:/root$ psql postgres
psql (9.3.1)
Type "help" for help.

postgres=>
postgres=> \c tidb_all
You are now connected to database "tidb_all" as user "tobiasco".
tidb_all=>
tidb_all=>

Create database

tobiasco@main:/root$ psql CREATE DATABASE test2;
psql: warning: extra command-line argument "test2" ignored
psql: FATAL:  Peer authentication failed for user "DATABASE"

Try without test2

tobiasco@main:/root$ psql CREATE DATABASE;
psql: FATAL:  Peer authentication failed for user "DATABASE"

Create table

tobiasco@main:/root$ psql test
psql (9.3.1)
Type "help" for help.
 
test=> CREATE TABLE testtable
test-> \dt test
No matching relations found.
test->

Create DB and CREATEDB

test-> \dg
                             List of roles
 Role name |                   Attributes                   | Member of
-----------+------------------------------------------------+-----------
 gis       |                                                | {}
 postgres  | Superuser, Create role, Create DB, Replication | {}
 tobiasco  | Create DB                                      | {}

But http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/sql-createdatabase.html says

"To create a database, you must be a superuser or have the special CREATEDB privilege."

Where to find "privilege"-listing?

• Not listed at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/index.html
• http://www.postgresql.org/search/?u=%2Fdocs%2F9.3%2F&q=privilege - the search result listing comes with little texts, the first contains " See Section 5.6 for more information about privileges."
• Clicking that result leads to http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/functions-info.html, the first result for in-page search repeats the above sentence, with hyperlink to the http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/ddl-priv.html
• On that page it says 'PostgreSQL 9.3.1 Documentation [...] 5.6. Privileges', the word section is only found in " The following sections and chapters will also show you how those privileges are used.". So maybe "5.6" here is the "Section 5.6"

There are different kinds of privileges: SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, 
DELETE, TRUNCATE, REFERENCES, TRIGGER, CREATE, CONNECT, TEMPORARY, EXECUTE, and USAGE.

No "Create DB" nor "CREATEDB", but it is not claimed that this list is complete.

For complete information on the different types of privileges 
supported by PostgreSQL, refer to the GRANT reference page.

Refer to? It would be nice to have a complete list of all "different types of privileges supported by PostgreSQL". Anyway, look at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/sql-grant.html

• "CREATEDB" not found on that page
• Try http://www.postgresql.org/search/?u=%2Fdocs%2F9.3%2F&q=CREATEDB
• first result links to http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/app-createdb.html

createdb -- create a new PostgreSQL database
[...]
createdb creates a new PostgreSQL database.
[...]
createdb is a wrapper around the SQL command CREATE DATABASE.

So, that is not the privilege "CREATEDB" here, but a wrapper? No interest in wrapper.

• second result links to http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/tutorial-createdb.html - no interest in tutorial. Wanted: documentation. Update: By accident found that the Tutorial is part of the documentation.

Documentation

1.4. Accessing a Database

You already discovered this scheme in the previous section using createdb.

No. I did not.