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> On Nov 9, 2022, at 1:39 PM, David G. Johnston =
<david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> Presumably this means that I can create a tiny database with one table =
that lists a set of databases. Or maybe not.

No need to create such a database. It just means that the connection has =
to be made to some database, at which point system catalogs can be read.=