On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 3/21/17 08:12, Robert Haas wrote:
>> I think a big part of the usability problem here comes from the fact
>> that the default database for connections is based on the username,
>> but the default databases that get created have fixed names (postgres,
>> template1). So the default configuration is one where you can't
>> connect. Why the heck do we do it that way?
>
> Historical, probably. We could ponder changing the way the default
> database is determined, but I don't want to imagine the breakage coming
> out of that.
What do you think would break?
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