On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm in favour of including it by default (at initdb), so it's there > for new users to play with on any fresh install ...
Could we perhaps punt on the issue of whether to install the "sampledb" by default. It could be controlled by a flag to initdb, say $ initdb --sample data Whereas if you omit the flag, then initdb just does a vanilla install. Then we can leave it up to the distributions whether they want to install it by default, or give the user options in their package management systems to control this. In Apt it could be a debconf question, in Portage it could be a USE flag, etc. I think it's a pretty safe bet that the "newbies" we're talking about in this thread are going to be installing postgres via a package management system. If they are installing from source, they are already reading the documentation and will have to learn about running initdb on the command line anyway. Cheers, BJ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
