diff --git a/wcsinst/wcsinstd/deploy.py b/wcsinst/wcsinstd/deploy.py
index 3d2f053..c9faaef 100644
--- a/wcsinst/wcsinstd/deploy.py
+++ b/wcsinst/wcsinstd/deploy.py
@@ -106,7 +106,10 @@ class DeployInstance(object):
 
         pgconn.set_isolation_level(psycopg2.extensions.ISOLATION_LEVEL_AUTOCOMMIT)
         cur = pgconn.cursor()
-        cur.execute('''CREATE DATABASE %s''' % database_name)
+        try:
+            cur.execute('''CREATE DATABASE %s''' % database_name)
+        except psycopg2.Error as e:
+            print 'got psycopg2 error:', e
         cur.close()
 
         wcs_cfg['postgresql']['database'] = database_name