From 095f69cb0920b260c7a1533f7a9f19782de85ed1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Ferguson Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 12:00:20 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] explain the default db for postgres --- postgres/README.md | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/postgres/README.md b/postgres/README.md index 10e6e7e2e..6df49f63a 100644 --- a/postgres/README.md +++ b/postgres/README.md @@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ PostgreSQL implements the majority of the SQL:2011 standard, is ACID-compliant a ## start a postgres instance docker run --name some-postgres -d postgres -This image includes `EXPOSE 5432` (the postgres port), so standard container linking will make it automatically available to the linked containers (as the following examples illustrate). +This image includes `EXPOSE 5432` (the postgres port), so standard container linking will make it automatically available to the linked containers. The default `postgres` user and database are created in the entrypoint with `initdb`. +> The postgres database is a default database meant for use by users, utilities and third party applications. [postgresql.org/docs](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interactive/app-initdb.html) ## connect to it from an application docker run --name some-app --link some-postgres:postgres -d application-that-uses-postgres