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Avoid using the terms 'installation', 'site', or 'instance' when referring

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to the thing you get from running initdb.  That's called a database cluster
(per SQL).
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Peter Eisentraut 2000-12-22 19:31:56 +00:00
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<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)),

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<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

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<!--
$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>

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<!--
$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 $
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<chapter id="query">
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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>