Re: template0 database comment - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thom Brown
Subject Re: template0 database comment
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In response to Re: template0 database comment  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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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' ?

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