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From: Jürgen Purtz <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Add A Glossary
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 13:47:10 +0200
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On 19.06.20 19:10, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Thanks for these fixes!  I included all of these.
>
> On 2020-Jun-19, Erik Rijkers wrote:
>
>> And one thing that I am not sure of (but strikes me as a bit odd):
>> there are several cases of
>> 'are enforced unique'. Should that not be
>> 'are enforced to be unique'  ?
> I included this change too; I am not too sure of it myself.  If some
> English language neatnik wants to argue one way or the other, be my
> guest.
>
- Added '(process)' to the two terms 'Autovacuum' and 'Stats Collector'

- Removed link to himself in 'Logger (process)'

- new term: Base Backup


--

Jürgen Purtz




Attachments:

  [text/x-patch] 0005-glossary.patch (1.7K, 2-0005-glossary.patch)
  download | inline diff:
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml
index 76525c6302..58e5071642 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
   </glossentry>
 
   <glossentry id="glossary-autovacuum">
-   <glossterm>Autovacuum</glossterm>
+   <glossterm>Autovacuum (process)</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
     <para>
      A set of background processes that routinely perform
@@ -178,6 +178,19 @@
    </glossdef>
   </glossentry>
 
+  <glossentry id="glossary-basebackup">
+   <glossterm>Base Backup</glossterm>
+   <glossdef>
+    <para>
+     A binary copy of all
+     <glossterm linkend="glossary-db-cluster">database cluster</glossterm>
+     files. It is generated by the tool <xref linkend="app-pgbasebackup"/>.  
+     In combination with WAL files it can be used as the starting point
+     for recovery, log shipping, or streaming replication.
+    </para>
+   </glossdef>
+  </glossentry>
+
   <glossentry id="glossary-bloat">
    <glossterm>Bloat</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
@@ -855,8 +868,7 @@
    <glossterm>Logger (process)</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
     <para>
-     If activated, the
-     <glossterm linkend="glossary-logger">Logger</glossterm> process
+     If activated, the process
      writes information about database events into the current
      <glossterm linkend="glossary-log-file">log file</glossterm>.
      When reaching certain time- or
@@ -1486,7 +1498,7 @@
   </glossentry>
 
   <glossentry id="glossary-stats-collector">
-   <glossterm>Stats collector</glossterm>
+   <glossterm>Stats collector (process)</glossterm>
    <glossdef>
     <para>
      This process collects statistical information about the

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