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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml index 7f22b0400f4..664a8d8fb58 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <!-- -$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml,v 1.34 2005/02/22 02:54:19 momjian Exp $ +$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml,v 1.35 2005/06/21 04:02:31 tgl Exp $ PostgreSQL documentation --> @@ -47,9 +47,12 @@ PostgreSQL documentation which the database data will live, generating the shared catalog tables (tables that belong to the whole cluster rather than to any particular database), and creating the <literal>template1</literal> - database. When you later create a new database, everything in the - <literal>template1</literal> database is copied. It contains catalog - tables containing things like built-in data types. + and <literal>postgres</literal> databases. When you later create a + new database, everything in the <literal>template1</literal> database is + copied. (Therefore, anything installed in <literal>template1</literal> + is automatically copied into each database created later.) + The <literal>postgres</literal> database is a default database meant + for use by users, utilities and third party applications. </para> <para> |