Re: [HACKERS] What can we learn from MySQL?

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Rob <pgadmin@itsbeen.sent.com>, pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-04-25T20:41:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Rob wrote:
> > But I think there is room to go further, I don't see any reason why
> > that default install can't include example DBs,
> 
> One reason is that a useful example database would likely have a 
> download footprint of 10 MB or more.  Having this in the default 
> download would not be appreciated by many people.  Of course having 
> some example database available at all would be a good idea, but then 
> as a separate download.

Here is a little psql script I wrote to populate a table with random
data.

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