> On 7 Nov 2019, at 22:50, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> 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 <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.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."
Agreed. I like your suggestion, or the inverse of it: "a database without any user defined objects". cheers ./daniel
