| From: | Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Stephen R(dot) van den Berg" <srb(at)cuci(dot)nl> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: blatantly a bug in the documentation |
| Date: | 2008-11-25 19:29:27 |
| Message-ID: | 492C5217.2060102@cheapcomplexdevices.com |
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Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
> ... it would be orders of magnitude more difficult for
> a novice to create the sample database from contrib or anywhere else.
It seems to me that *this* is the more serious problem that
we should fix instead.
If, from the psql command prompt I could type:
psql=# install module sampledb;
Downloading sampledb from pgfoundry...
Installing sampledb....
Connecting to sampledb....
sampledb=#
it'd remove the need for pre-installing a rarely-needed ad-on,
as well as being useful for other projects. For exmaple:
psql=# install module US_Census_Tiger_Maps;
Installing dependency Postgis...
Installing module US_Census_Tiger_Maps....
to install a GIS system with all the road networks.
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