Re: template0 database comment - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: template0 database comment
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Msg-id 201103151537.p2FFbMN25384@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 15 March 2011 15:26, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> >
> > Applied. ?I did not bump the catalog version because they are just
> > comments. ?I assume that is the right procedure.
> 
> *SNIP*
> 
> >> + ? ? ? ? ? ? "COMMENT ON DATABASE postgres IS 'default administrative connection database';\n",
> 
> Default administrative connection database?  Where's the "connection"
> bit come from?

There was discussion that 'postgres' is the database that is used for
performing administrative connections, e.g. createdb.  Yeah, kind of
odd, but that's what it is used for.

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