Re: template0 database comment - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: template0 database comment
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Msg-id 201103121414.p2CEEWu00859@momjian.us
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In response to Re: template0 database comment  (Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>)
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Thom Brown wrote:
> On 12 March 2011 13:59, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > Dave Page wrote:
> >> On 3/12/11, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> >> >> People are confused about what template0 is for, so I created the
> >> >> attached one-line patch to add a database comment to template0. No
> >> >> initdb, I assume, becuase it is just a comment.
> >> >
> >> >> + ? ? ? ? ?"COMMENT ON DATABASE template0 IS 'only used by pg_dump';\n",
> >> >
> >> > No objection to the concept, but the actual text of this comment is
> >> > approximately 100% wrong.
> >> >
> >>
> >> I'd like to lodge a formal objection to the use of the word
> >> 'approximately' in the above comment.
> >
> > OK, funny guys. ?;-) ?Can someone give me the right text. ?Obviously I
> > don' know what template0 is used for either. ?Is it pg_dumpall perhaps?
> 
> 'original template database' ?

I like that.  Perhaps "unmodified template database'?

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