On 19.06.20 19:10, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Thanks for these fixes! I included all of these.
On 2020-Jun-19, Erik Rijkers wrote:
And one thing that I am not sure of (but strikes me as a bit odd):
there are several cases of
'are enforced unique'. Should that not be
'are enforced to be unique' ?
I included this change too; I am not too sure of it myself. If some
English language neatnik wants to argue one way or the other, be my
guest.
- Added '(process)' to the two terms 'Autovacuum' and 'Stats Collector'
- Removed link to himself in 'Logger (process)'
- new term: Base Backup
--
Jürgen Purtz
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml
index 76525c6302..58e5071642 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary-autovacuum">
- <glossterm>Autovacuum</glossterm>
+ <glossterm>Autovacuum (process)</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>
A set of background processes that routinely perform
@@ -178,6 +178,19 @@
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
+ <glossentry id="glossary-basebackup">
+ <glossterm>Base Backup</glossterm>
+ <glossdef>
+ <para>
+ A binary copy of all
+ <glossterm linkend="glossary-db-cluster">database cluster</glossterm>
+ files. It is generated by the tool <xref linkend="app-pgbasebackup"/>.
+ In combination with WAL files it can be used as the starting point
+ for recovery, log shipping, or streaming replication.
+ </para>
+ </glossdef>
+ </glossentry>
+
<glossentry id="glossary-bloat">
<glossterm>Bloat</glossterm>
<glossdef>
@@ -855,8 +868,7 @@
<glossterm>Logger (process)</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>
- If activated, the
- <glossterm linkend="glossary-logger">Logger</glossterm> process
+ If activated, the process
writes information about database events into the current
<glossterm linkend="glossary-log-file">log file</glossterm>.
When reaching certain time- or
@@ -1486,7 +1498,7 @@
</glossentry>
<glossentry id="glossary-stats-collector">
- <glossterm>Stats collector</glossterm>
+ <glossterm>Stats collector (process)</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<para>
This process collects statistical information about the
