Re: The word "virgin" used incorrectly and probably better off replaced

On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 06:50:10PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2019-Nov-07, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 07:55:22PM +0100, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> > > > On 7 Nov 2019, at 16:03, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
> > > > We could say "empty", which seems better suited than both "virgin" and
> > > > "pristine" anyway.
> > >
> > > empty is a lot better, but still isn't conveying the state of the database
> > > without there being room for interpretation. (My grasp of the english language
> > > isn't enough to suggest a better alternative however).
> >
> > I am thinking "pristine" would be a good word here.
>
> But you would have to explain that a database created as a copy of
> template1 may somehow not be pristine. Maybe we should just use a
> phrase that describes what we mean, something like "a database that
> doesn't contain objects other than default system ones."

True.

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