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Re: Add A Glossary

Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>

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From: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, Jürgen Purtz <juergen@purtz.de>, Roger Harkavy <rogerharkavy@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Date: 2020-04-03T17:34:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-docs 
>
> we have it, we can start thinking of patching the main part of the docs
> to make reference to it by using <glossterm> in key spots.  Right now
> the glossary links to itself, but it makes lots of sense to have other
> places point to it.
>

I have some ideas about how to patch the main docs, but will leave those to
a separate thread.


> * I commented out the definition of "sequence", which seemed to go into
>   excessive detail.  Let's have a more concise definition?
>

That one's my fault.


>
> Patches for these omissions, and other contributions, welcome.
>

Thanks for all your work on this!

Commits

  1. Glossary: Add term "base backup"

  2. Minor glossary tweaks

  3. Adjust some glossary terms

  4. Fix more typos and grammar problems in the glossary

  5. Review of the glossary

  6. Add a glossary to the documentation