Re: Glossary and initdb definition work for "superuser" and database/cluster

2022-11-18 Thread David G. Johnston
On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 4:11 AM Alvaro Herrera wrote: > On 2022-Nov-02, David G. Johnston wrote: > > > Version 2 attached, some significant re-working. Starting to think that > > initdb isn't the place for some of this content - in particular the stuff > > I'm deciding to move down to the Notes

Re: Glossary and initdb definition work for "superuser" and database/cluster

2022-11-18 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On 2022-Nov-02, David G. Johnston wrote: > Version 2 attached, some significant re-working. Starting to think that > initdb isn't the place for some of this content - in particular the stuff > I'm deciding to move down to the Notes section. Might consider moving some > of it to the Server Setup

Re: Glossary and initdb definition work for "superuser" and database/cluster

2022-11-02 Thread David G. Johnston
On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 6:59 PM David G. Johnston wrote: > > P.S. I'm now looking at the very first paragraph to initdb more closely, > not liking "single server instance" all that much and wondering how to fit > in "cluster user" there - possibly by saying something like "...managed by > a single

Re: Glossary and initdb definition work for "superuser" and database/cluster

2022-11-01 Thread David G. Johnston
On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 5:20 PM Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 03:47:15PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote: > > > I think this is wrong: > > | https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/app-initdb.html > | -U username > | --username=username > | > | Selects the user name of the databa

Re: Glossary and initdb definition work for "superuser" and database/cluster

2022-11-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 03:47:15PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote: > Hey, > > Recent threads have pointed out some long-standing doc language in initdb > that could be made more precise, especially in light of the relatively > recent addition of a glossary. Toward this end I'm attaching a patch t

Glossary and initdb definition work for "superuser" and database/cluster

2022-11-01 Thread David G. Johnston
Hey, Recent threads have pointed out some long-standing doc language in initdb that could be made more precise, especially in light of the relatively recent addition of a glossary. Toward this end I'm attaching a patch that defines three terms: "bootstrap superuser", "database superuser" and "sup