I can't get too excited about this, to be honest. What I would like to see, either in contrib or on pgfoundry, is one or more moderately complete and well populated sample databases.
cheers
andrew
Josh Berkus wrote:
Folks,
Some issues have come up repeatedly on IRC with new users, enough so that they might be worth addressing in the code:
a) new users try just to "psql" as postgres, and get a "no such database postgres";
b) new users use template1 as a testing database, and then have to re-initdb to clean it up.
Both of these things could be solved by creating an additional, non-template database called "postgres" at initdb. For security reasons, this db would be set up in pg_hba.conf as accessable only by postgres via local. It might not seem like it to experienced programmers, but having a "sandbox" database which lets you get used to PG commands would be a boon to people how are new to both Postgres and SQL databases in general.
The only reason not to do it is space; each database takes up about 5mb. That's nothing to most users but could be a problem for a few. Also, it would create a minor burden on the fsm to track an extra set of relations.
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