Re: Test database for new installs? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Test database for new installs?
Date
Msg-id 20169.1100814362@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Test database for new installs?  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Responses Re: Test database for new installs?  (Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au>)
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Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> 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.

I think this is a documentation thing as much as anything else.  We
could just suggest that the first move after starting the postmaster becreatedb
(they don't even need to give it an argument ... how painless can you
get?)
        regards, tom lane


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