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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: The word "virgin" used incorrectly and probably better off replaced
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 13:30:07 -0300
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
On 2019-Nov-08, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> writes:
> > Hmm. Maybe we can say "pristine database" and then add this explanation
> > in a parenthical comment:
>
> > This is particularly handy when restoring a
> > <literal>pg_dump</literal> dump: the dump script should be restored in a
> > pristine database (one where no user-defined objects exist and where
> > system objects have not been altered), to ensure that one recreates
> > the correct contents of the dumped database, without conflicting
> > with objects that might have been added to
> > <literal>template1</literal> later on.
>
> So the patch becomes s/virgin/pristine/g plus add a parenthetical
> definition for the first use? Works for me.
Well, there are three uses of the word "virgin". The first is for
"virgin user", and the patch turns that into just "user". The second
one is for "virgin database" and the patch has the effect you describe.
The third one is also s/virgin//.
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Attachments:
[text/x-diff] v2-0001-No-more-virgins.patch (2.3K, 2-v2-0001-No-more-virgins.patch)
download | inline diff:
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/manage-ag.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/manage-ag.sgml
index 0154064e50..7e7f0ed00c 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/manage-ag.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/manage-ag.sgml
@@ -197,15 +197,17 @@ createdb -O <replaceable>rolename</replaceable> <replaceable>dbname</replaceable
predefined by your version of
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname>. <literal>template0</literal>
should never be changed after the database cluster has been
initialized. By instructing
<command>CREATE DATABASE</command> to copy <literal>template0</literal> instead
- of <literal>template1</literal>, you can create a <quote>virgin</quote> user
+ of <literal>template1</literal>, you can create a user
database that contains none of the site-local additions in
<literal>template1</literal>. This is particularly handy when restoring a
<literal>pg_dump</literal> dump: the dump script should be restored in a
- virgin database to ensure that one recreates the correct contents
+ pristine database (one where no user-defined objects exist and where
+ system objects have not been altered), to ensure that one recreates
+ the correct contents
of the dumped database, without conflicting with objects that
might have been added to <literal>template1</literal> later on.
</para>
<para>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_database.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_database.sgml
index 4014f6703b..e56aca6d30 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_database.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_database.sgml
@@ -52,11 +52,11 @@ CREATE DATABASE <replaceable class="parameter">name</replaceable>
<para>
By default, the new database will be created by cloning the standard
system database <literal>template1</literal>. A different template can be
specified by writing <literal>TEMPLATE
<replaceable class="parameter">name</replaceable></literal>. In particular,
- by writing <literal>TEMPLATE template0</literal>, you can create a virgin
+ by writing <literal>TEMPLATE template0</literal>, you can create a
database containing only the standard objects predefined by your
version of <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>. This is useful
if you wish to avoid copying
any installation-local objects that might have been added to
<literal>template1</literal>.
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