Re: blatantly a bug in the documentation

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> "Dave Page" <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> writes:
>> I'm in favour of including it by default (at initdb), so it's there
>> for new users to play with on any fresh install - however, there is
>> only a point to that if all the documentation examples are based on
>> that database to allow copy-paste-play.
>
> You would also have to assume that all the examples are non-destructive,
> and that no one ever extends an example in a destructive way.

That's a good point.

> This
> seems like a non-starter. Better to provide the sample database in a
> form in which it can be easily dropped/reloaded. I'm envisioning that
> there's a source file in $sharedir and we tell people
>
> createdb example
> psql -f $sharedir/example.sql example

I was assuming that it would be in such a form anyway - similar to
system_views.sql for example. I'd be happy with that setup - it's far
better than referring people to pgFoundry, and should be simple for
anyone to use.

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Dave Page
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