Re: [DOCS] Re: [GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: SGVLLUG Oracle and Informix on Linux]

[The Hermit Hacker]

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Bruce Tong wrote:

> > They have to connect to template1 to do the work.  Currently, they don't
> > need to know template1 even exists, so it seems like an added burden.  I
> > will add a mention to the createdb, destroydb man pages.  createuser
> > does psql too.
> 
> And as a result, I didn't know what template1 was for until now, and I
> fear there's more to it than just this. Up until this point, I assumed
> "template1" was an example database which could be copied, or something.
> At least that's what a template is to me.

        In a sense, that is exactly what it is.  When you do a 'createdb',
it uses template1 as the "template" for the new database, and then buildds
from there...