On Monday, March 20, 2017 3:30:49 PM EDT Robert Haas wrote: > On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> wrote: > > createdb, dropdb - also not clear they're about postgres, more likely to > > be > > used by mistake but not that bad. That said, do they add any *value* > > beyond > > what you can do with psql -c "CREATE DATABASE"? I don't really see one, so > > I'd suggest dropping these too. > > That would annoy me, because I use these constantly. I also think > that they solve a problem for users, which is this: > > [rhaas ~]$ psql > psql: FATAL: database "rhaas" does not exist > [rhaas ~]$ psql -c 'create database rhaas;' > psql: FATAL: database "rhaas" does not exist > [rhaas ~]$ gosh, i know i need to connect to a database in order to > create the database to which psql tries to connect by default, so > there must be an existing database with some name, but what exactly is > that name, anyway? > -bash: gosh,: command not found > > There was an occasion when this exact problem almost caused me to give > up on using PostgreSQL. Everybody here presumably knows that > template1 and postgres are the magic words you can add to the end of > that command line to make it work, but that is NOT self-evident to > newcomers.
Same here. I worked on a system with a shrink-wrap installer which installed pgsql as well and initialized it for use by the system user of our software. If a tester or sales engineer wanted to play with the DB, it would be about 30 minutes before they would end up at my desk, in tears. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
