"Dave Page" <dpage@pgadmin.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. 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 examplepsql -f $sharedir/example.sql example
regards, tom lane