Re: template0 database comment

Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> >> 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?
>
> > template0: unmodifiable pristine empty database
> > template1: default template for new databases
>
> Yeah, I think that the right way to approach this is to have initdb
> comment *both* of those databases. I don't like that specific wording
> for template0 though. Maybe
>
> template0: unmodified copy of original template1 database
> template1: default template for new databases

Tom, the current comment for "template1" is "default template database".
Do you like your above wording better? It does make it slighly longer.

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