| From: | "Jonathan S(dot) Katz" <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, devguy(dot)ca(at)gmail(dot)com, "pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: inappropriate word 'victim' |
| Date: | 2017-10-03 21:53:30 |
| Message-ID: | E39E8962-335D-46FA-BF49-29206A0A7990@postgresql.org |
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> On Oct 3, 2017, at 4:29 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
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> On 10/03/2017 01:28 PM, David G. Johnston wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com
>
>> My first inclination was "target" though I suppose its not that much closer to the supposed neutral position on this subjective scale than "victim".
>> Subject didn't sound right either (marginally). Maybe "named" - "...while connected to the named database."
>> Given that, aside from 3 release note instances, we never use the word "victim" in the docs leads me to want to change this if just for internal consistency.
>
> Named is probably the best middle ground.
If you click into the documentation for DROP DATABASE [https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-dropdatabase.html <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-dropdatabase.html>] you get:
"Also, it cannot be executed while you or anyone else are connected to the target database."
So there is a precedent for using “target” for this command.
Jonathan
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