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From: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: Paul Weiss <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: the concept of a database cluster
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 09:11:56 -0700
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On Saturday, January 4, 2020, Paul Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:

> Oh, I didn't mean to imply that I am confused. It is clear that there are
> two concepts here, sharing a term. I was trying to communicate that the
> manual does not always make it immediately clear from context which concept
> is meant in a particular sentence.
>
> A garage is a good analogy. A garage is a container for cars rather than a
> collection of cars. You wouldn't say "I sold my garage" to mean "I sold my
> car collection". Containers and collections are different things.
>
> Here's a simple example In our context: "remove the cluster" could mean
> "delete the folder containing the databases", or "drop the databases".
> Those actions are not identical. I would think we would want to be clear to
> our users which we mean.
>

I’m sure we’d be willing to fix concrete problematic examples but a lack of
those suggests there is no actual problem here...as you aren’t confused or
providing concrete examples and suggestions I have no idea what you are
trying to accomplish with this thread.  Awareness of what seems to be a
non-existent issue?

David J.

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