From 387d43113c1f5376f567a292072e2caf143e3ba6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 19:31:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid using the terms 'installation', 'site', or 'instance'
when referring to the thing you get from running initdb. That's called a
database cluster (per SQL).
---
doc/src/sgml/arch-pg.sgml | 4 ++--
doc/src/sgml/arch.sgml | 4 ++--
doc/src/sgml/notation.sgml | 14 +-------------
doc/src/sgml/query.sgml | 6 +++---
4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/arch-pg.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/arch-pg.sgml
index 98c9f18f6da..7928347c00d 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/arch-pg.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/arch-pg.sgml
@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@
<Para>
A single <Application>postmaster</Application> manages a given collection of
databases on a single host. Such a collection of
- databases is called an installation or site. Frontend
+ databases is called a cluster (of databases). Frontend
applications that wish to access a given database
- within an installation make calls to the library.
+ within a cluster make calls to the library.
The library sends user requests over the network to the
<Application>postmaster</Application>
(<XRef LinkEnd="PGARCH-CONNECTIONS" EndTerm="PGARCH-CONNECTIONS">(a)),
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/arch.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/arch.sgml
index 3ce064192aa..d5d60629761 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/arch.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/arch.sgml
@@ -35,9 +35,9 @@
<Para>
A single <Application>postmaster</Application> manages a given collection of
databases on a single host. Such a collection of
- databases is called an installation or site. Frontend
+ databases is called a cluster (of databases). Frontend
applications that wish to access a given database
- within an installation make calls to the library.
+ within a cluster make calls to the library.
The library sends user requests over the network to the
<Application>postmaster</Application> (<XRef LinkEnd="ARCH-CLIENTSERVER" EndTerm="ARCH-CLIENTSERVER">),
which in turn starts a new backend server process
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/notation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/notation.sgml
index f7991aba17b..e6faf72fecd 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/notation.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/notation.sgml
@@ -1,22 +1,10 @@
<!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/notation.sgml,v 1.11 2000/12/21 22:55:27 petere Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/notation.sgml,v 1.12 2000/12/22 19:31:56 petere Exp $
-->
<sect1 id="terminology">
<title>Terminology</title>
- <para>
- In the following documentation,
- <firstterm>site</firstterm>
- may be interpreted as the host machine on which
- <Productname>Postgres</Productname> is installed.
- Since it is possible to install more than one set of
- <Productname>Postgres</Productname>
- databases on a single host, this term more precisely denotes any
- particular set of installed
- <Productname>Postgres</Productname> binaries and databases.
- </para>
-
<para>
The
<Productname>Postgres</Productname> <firstterm>superuser</firstterm>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/query.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/query.sgml
index 5eb535eafa5..a2736b99e78 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/query.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/query.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/query.sgml,v 1.15 2000/12/22 18:57:50 petere Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/query.sgml,v 1.16 2000/12/22 19:31:56 petere Exp $
-->
<chapter id="query">
@@ -88,8 +88,8 @@ mydb=> \i basics.sql
are <firstterm>attributes</firstterm>.
As previously discussed, classes are grouped into
databases, and a collection of databases managed by a
- single <application>postmaster</application> process constitutes an installation
- or site.
+ single <application>postmaster</application> process constitutes a
+ database cluster.
</para>
</sect1>
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