Re: template0 database comment

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: template0 database comment
Date: 2011-03-12 13:59:29
Message-ID: 201103121359.p2CDxTU28901@momjian.us
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Dave Page wrote:
> On 3/12/11, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)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?

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