| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Thomas F(dot) O'Connell" <tfo(at)sitening(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCHES] default database creation with initdb |
| Date: | 2005-06-19 21:54:44 |
| Message-ID: | 1686.1119218084@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
>> What about just calling the new database postgres by default?
> Hey, works for me. A great idea really.
Yeah, that seems like a pretty good compromise to me too. I was
thinking last night that we'd end up with documentation statements
like "you connect to the default database by default" which would
be kinda confusing :-(.
> Hmmmm .... except ... on BSD platforms, due to history with Ports, the
> superuser is "pgsql". Fortunately, the BSDs only account for a small
> minority of new users, so we could just ignore it.
Perhaps the Ports guys will get motivated to become more standard ;-).
regards, tom lane
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