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From: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[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 09:52:48 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

> On 7 Nov 2019, at 22:50, Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 2019-Nov-07, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Nov  7, 2019 at 07:55:22PM +0100, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>>>> On 7 Nov 2019, at 16:03, Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>>> We could say "empty", which seems better suited than both "virgin" and
>>>> "pristine" anyway.
>>> 
>>> empty is a lot better, but still isn't conveying the state of the database
>>> without there being room for interpretation.  (My grasp of the english language
>>> isn't enough to suggest a better alternative however).
>> 
>> I am thinking "pristine" would be a good word here.
> 
> But you would have to explain that a database created as a copy of
> template1 may somehow not be pristine.  Maybe we should just use a
> phrase that describes what we mean, something like "a database that
> doesn't contain objects other than default system ones."

Agreed.  I like your suggestion, or the inverse of it: "a database without any
user defined objects".

cheers ./daniel

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