Andreas Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I particularly dislike the name "default" for that database, because > we'd have to expect users to place their user data there regularly (as > in the public schema), which is just what should *not* happen.
Why not? Any tools using this database for their own purposes should surely be smart enough to put all their stuff in a tool-specific schema with a name chosen to be unlikely to collide with user names. So I see no reason at all that users couldn't use the database too. If your intent is to have a database reserved for tool use only, you can certainly have an agreement among tool authors to create "pg_tools" or some such if it's not there already. But there are no potential uses of such a database in the standard distribution, and so I see no reason to load down the standard distribution by creating a database that may go completely unused. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend