If you've munged your template1 database, you can rebuild it from the template0 database.

First, you must set the datistemplate attribute of template1 to false so we can drop it:

xinu=# UPDATE pg_database SET datistemplate = false WHERE datname = 'template1';
UPDATE 1
xinu=# DROP DATABASE template1;
DROP DATABASE

Next, re-create template1 using template0 as a template:

xinu=# CREATE DATABASE template1 WITH TEMPLATE = template0;
CREATE DATABASE

Then restore the datistemplate attribute of template1:

xinu=# UPDATE pg_database SET datistemplate = true WHERE datname = 'template1';
UPDATE 1

If you know you want to use a previous email as a template, find the message and press M-e. It will dump you in an editor with the same headers and content.

If you have a database mytemplate that you'd like to use as a template, update its datistemplate attribute in the pg_database relation:

UPDATE pg_database SET datistemplate = 't' WHERE datname = 'mytemplate';

Then you can use it as a template when creating other databases:

CREATE DATABASE otherdb TEMPLATE mytemplate;