Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> Some issues have come up repeatedly on IRC with new users, enough so that they
> might be worth addressing in the code:
> a) new users try just to "psql" as postgres, and get a "no such database
> postgres";
> b) new users use template1 as a testing database, and then have to re-initdb
> to clean it up.
I think this is a documentation thing as much as anything else. We
could just suggest that the first move after starting the postmaster be
createdb
(they don't even need to give it an argument ... how painless can you
get?)
regards, tom lane