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Re: template0 database comment

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-03-15T15:37:22Z
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Thom Brown wrote:
> On 15 March 2011 15:26, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> >
> > Applied. ?I did not bump the catalog version because they are just
> > comments. ?I assume that is the right procedure.
> 
> *SNIP*
> 
> >> + ? ? ? ? ? ? "COMMENT ON DATABASE postgres IS 'default administrative connection database';\n",
> 
> Default administrative connection database?  Where's the "connection"
> bit come from?

There was discussion that 'postgres' is the database that is used for
performing administrative connections, e.g. createdb.  Yeah, kind of
odd, but that's what it is used for.

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