Re: Example Database

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 02:21, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> On Thursday 21 August 2003 12:44, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 01:50, David M. Cook wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 04:19:44PM +0200, Erwin Brandstetter wrote:
> > > > An example database that demonstrates the usage of all the core
> > > > PostgreSQL features.
> > >
> > > This looks rather interesting:
> > >
> > > http://wfb2sql.sourceforge.net/
> > >
> > > (CIA World Fact Book to SQL.)
> >
> > But the CIA is Eeeeeeeevil, and PostgreSQL is Pure (it's is Debian
> > Main after all!).
> >
> > How could you even *think* of corrupting PG in that manner?????
>
> Well, that was nice but in case somebody misses the point of joke, from the
> website..

Well, actually, no, I was talking directly about the CIA itself.

Am I dating myself by presuming that most people think of the CIA
a a bunch of ultra-right-wing incompetent spooks that go around
toppling "freely" elected governments?

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> The CIA World Factbook
>
>
> wfb2sql has been tested with the Factbook 2003 and 2002. The Factbook is
> available for free at http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/. Extract
> from the Copyright-Statement: "The Factbook is in the public domain.
> Accordingly, it may be copied freely without permission of the Central
> Intelligence Agency (CIA).". The complete .zip-archive has as size of approx.
> 85 MB. Since wfb2sql doesn't need the included PDF-maps, you may also decide
> to download the smaller version without the PDF-maps. This download is about
> 15 MB.

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