Re: 9.4 Proposal: Initdb creates a single table

From: Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org>
To: David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 9.4 Proposal: Initdb creates a single table
Date: 2014-04-24 13:40:08
Message-ID: CABRT9RCSvo=GJtDzHyEm6+18QeCuwD1n5rjG++coKWAqfHqZ2Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:26 AM, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> but for a long time I've thought that it would be nice if
> PostgreSQL came with an example database that had a number of tables,
> perhaps that mock up some easy to relate to real-world application. These
> would be very useful to use as examples in the documents instead of
> inventing them in the ad-hoc way that we currently do. Like here:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/tutorial-window.html

I think that's a great idea. I'm not convinced it should be created by
default in initdb, but a "CREATE EXTENSION sample_data" seems easy
enough for newbies to use and has a good chance of getting merged into
contrib.

Regards,
Marti

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