Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> What about just calling the new database postgres by default?
> Hey, works for me. A great idea really.
Yeah, that seems like a pretty good compromise to me too. I was
thinking last night that we'd end up with documentation statements
like "you connect to the default database by default" which would
be kinda confusing :-(.
> Hmmmm .... except ... on BSD platforms, due to history with Ports, the
> superuser is "pgsql". Fortunately, the BSDs only account for a small
> minority of new users, so we could just ignore it.
Perhaps the Ports guys will get motivated to become more standard ;-).
regards, tom lane