On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Bruce Tong wrote:
> > They have to connect to template1 to do the work. Currently, they don't
> > need to know template1 even exists, so it seems like an added burden. I
> > will add a mention to the createdb, destroydb man pages. createuser
> > does psql too.
>
> And as a result, I didn't know what template1 was for until now, and I
> fear there's more to it than just this. Up until this point, I assumed
> "template1" was an example database which could be copied, or something.
> At least that's what a template is to me.
In a sense, that is exactly what it is. When you do a 'createdb',
it uses template1 as the "template" for the new database, and then buildds
from there...
