Dave Page wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>
>> A. Kretschmer wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Okay, it is an argument. On the other side, it was a question today in
>>> the irc-channel (#postgresql) today, someone asked, why his funktion
>>> don't work. I think, such examples should not contain such code. It is
>>> not apparent that this function are not available.
>>>
>> Perhaps the whole chapter could be improved if all the examples referred
>> to a set of tables and functions previously defined in the introduction
>> of the chapter. It would be good if the user could cut'n paste the code
>> and try it out directly, instead of having to reverse engineer the
>> tables/columns used for each example (and they're quite inconsistent).
>> Also, some examples give the complete code including CREATE FUNCTION and
>> others don't.
>>
>
> It might also be useful to create such a database at initdb time so
> newbies have something interesting to look at right away.
>
No, there is no need to clutter every installation in the world with
such a database. You could make it an addon module, or a pgfoundry project.
cheers
andrew
