Re: single-user vs standalone in docs and messages

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Some places in the docs and elog hints refer to "standalone" backends, while
> the official name as used in app-postgres.html is "single-user mode", and in
> fact "standalone" does not appear on that page.
>
> This tries to standardize the other locations to use "single-user". I think
> I did the right thing with the message translation files, but I can't figure
> out how to test that.
>
> I made no attempt to change code-comments, just the user-facing parts.

I think you could tell people to use "single-user mode" instead of "a
standalone backend", but telling them to use "a single-user backend"
just seems weird.

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