postgres@andy-laptop:~$ psql
Welcome to psql 8.2.4, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

Type:  \copyright for distribution terms
       \h for help with SQL commands
       \? for help with psql commands
       \g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
       \q to quit

postgres=# CREATE DATABASE testdb
postgres-# createdb testdb
postgres-# \q
postgres@andy-laptop:~$ psql -l
        List of databases
   Name    |  Owner   | Encoding 
-----------+----------+----------
 postgres  | postgres | UTF8
 template0 | postgres | UTF8
 template1 | postgres | UTF8
(3 rows)

postgres@andy-laptop:~$