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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2009-06-17 21:58:49 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2009-06-17 21:58:49 +0000
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Proofreading for Bruce's recent round of documentation proofreading.
Most of those changes were good, but some not so good ...
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/start.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/start.sgml
index 11bd7895d1e..863011a9ddd 100644
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+++ b/doc/src/sgml/start.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/start.sgml,v 1.49 2009/04/27 16:27:36 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/start.sgml,v 1.50 2009/06/17 21:58:49 tgl Exp $ -->
<chapter id="tutorial-start">
<title>Getting Started</title>
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
<para>
A server process, which manages the database files, accepts
connections to the database from client applications, and
- performs database actions on the behalf of the clients. The
+ performs database actions on behalf of the clients. The
database server program is called
<filename>postgres</filename>.
<indexterm><primary>postgres</primary></indexterm>
@@ -164,8 +164,8 @@
createdb: command not found
</screen>
then <productname>PostgreSQL</> was not installed properly. Either it was not
- installed at all or your shell's search path was not set correctly. Try
- calling the command with an absolute path instead:
+ installed at all or your shell's search path was not set to include it.
+ Try calling the command with an absolute path instead:
<screen>
<prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>/usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb mydb</userinput>
</screen>
@@ -177,8 +177,7 @@ createdb: command not found
<para>
Another response could be this:
<screen>
-createdb: could not connect to database postgres: could not connect
-to server: No such file or directory
+createdb: could not connect to database postgres: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"?
</screen>