---
title: "Creating a PostgreSQL Database"
description: "After installing PostgreSQL and phpPgAdmin on your server, you can begin to work with postgreSQL databases. In this tutorial we will show you how to Create a PostgreSQL database in cPanel. How to..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/create-database/
date: 2014-04-15
modified: 2021-08-16
author: "InMotion Hosting Contributor"
categories: ["Website", "Working with Databases"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# Creating a PostgreSQL Database

After [installing PostgreSQL and phpPgAdmin](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/server/databases/install-setup/) on your server, you can begin to work with postgreSQL databases. In this tutorial we will show you how to **Create** a **PostgreSQL database** in cPanel.

## How to Create a PostgreSQL Database

1. [Login to cPanel](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/cpanel/how-to-log-into-cpanel/).
2. Click the **PostgreSQL Databases** button in the *Databases* section. [![](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/newPaperLantern_cmNewPaper_06.png)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/newPaperLantern_cmNewPaper_06.png)
3. In the *Create New Database* section, enter your database name. [![](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/newPaperLantern_cmNewPaper_07.png)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/newPaperLantern_cmNewPaper_07.png)
4. Click the **Create Database** button. You are finished when you see a message stating “*Added the database*” along with the database name. [![](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/newPaperLantern_cmNewPaper_08.png)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/newPaperLantern_cmNewPaper_08.png)
5. Click the **Go Back** button to return to the previous page. You will then see your new database listed in the *Current Databases* section. [![](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/newPaperLantern_cmNewPaper_09.png)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/newPaperLantern_cmNewPaper_09.png)

Congratulations, now you know how to create a PostgreSQL database in cPanel! Continue to our next guide where we will show you how to [create a database user, and add them to a postgreSQL database](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/creating-users-adding-them-to-database/). Learn more about [PostgreSQL Hosting](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/postgresql-hosting) options.