Bruce Momjian wrote:
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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Right, I have done the same in the past using random character data (it even had random lengths of strings in the different fields) and in other cases random dictionary words. I was thinking something with more structure, like an customer/product/invoice db with random records that link up to each other properly.
I will work on something but am wondering if there are any freely available schemas around (for any system, I know Sybase has a book publishing one that they use in their example queries and is provided with their install, "pubs2" I believe) that might be good for use in a more extended sample db.
Are there any platforms (outside of MS Windows) that don't include a word list or dictionary these days?
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