Re: Test database for new installs?

From: Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>
To: josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Test database for new installs?
Date: 2004-11-18 21:30:05
Message-ID: 1100813405.4697.126.camel@home
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> The only reason not to do it is space; each database takes up about 5mb.
> That's nothing to most users but could be a problem for a few. Also, it
> would create a minor burden on the fsm to track an extra set of relations.

Perhaps it could have an initdb flag to turn it off and be easily
dropped via drop database? Then it's not such a big deal.

As a side note, the database shouldn't be "postgres" but representative
of the username they're installing with. pgsql is another popular
username.

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