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Subject: Re: The word "virgin" used incorrectly and probably better off
 replaced
From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
In-Reply-To: <20191107215010.GA8541@alvherre.pgsql>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 09:52:48 +0100
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>,
 brian.williams@mayalane.com,
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To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
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> On 7 Nov 2019, at 22:50, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> On 2019-Nov-07, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>=20
>> On Thu, Nov  7, 2019 at 07:55:22PM +0100, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>>>> On 7 Nov 2019, at 16:03, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> =
wrote:
>=20
>>>> We could say "empty", which seems better suited than both "virgin" =
and
>>>> "pristine" anyway.
>>>=20
>>> 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).
>>=20
>> I am thinking "pristine" would be a good word here.
>=20
> 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=