I am unable to create databases using my postgres client with the user I log in as.
I am having trouble figuring out how increase the privileges of my user. I have acces
I don´t know of a postgres GUI, but here's how to do it in the psql-console (logged in as the superuser):
=> ALTER USER your_username CREATEDB;
See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/sql-alteruser.html for more info.