Re: 9.4 Proposal: Initdb creates a single table

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:

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> 2014-04-24 15:40 GMT+02:00 Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org>:
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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.
>>
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> Good idea
>
>
+1

This "sample data" can be very useful to many things:
* trainning
* automated tests
* benchmark ???

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