Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On l?r, 2011-03-12 at 12:01 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Shouldn't the "postgres" database get a comment too, while we're at
> > it? Perhaps "default database to connect to"?
>
> That's not actually true, though. Maybe it's the "default database used
> by administration programs"? In practice it might be "some otherwise
> unused database that's occasionally useful". ;-)
Based on previous discussion I have developed a patch to add comments
for 'postgres' and 'template0' databases:
postgres=> \l+
...
postgres | default administrative database
template0 | unmodifiable empty database
template1 | default template database
--
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com
+ It's impossible for everything to be true. +
diff --git a/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c b/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c
new file mode 100644
index acd2514..2397932
*** a/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c
--- b/src/bin/initdb/initdb.c
*************** make_template0(void)
*** 1976,1981 ****
--- 1976,1983 ----
"REVOKE CREATE,TEMPORARY ON DATABASE template1 FROM public;\n",
"REVOKE CREATE,TEMPORARY ON DATABASE template0 FROM public;\n",
+ "COMMENT ON DATABASE template0 IS 'unmodifiable empty database';\n",
+
/*
* Finally vacuum to clean up dead rows in pg_database
*/
*************** make_postgres(void)
*** 2011,2016 ****
--- 2013,2019 ----
const char **line;
static const char *postgres_setup[] = {
"CREATE DATABASE postgres;\n",
+ "COMMENT ON DATABASE postgres IS 'default administrative database';\n",
NULL
};
