From c30446b9c901b357f9a7b859c51bee5740ac313f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:58:49 +0000
Subject: Proofreading for Bruce's recent round of documentation proofreading.
 Most of those changes were good, but some not so good ...

---
 doc/src/sgml/start.sgml | 11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

(limited to 'doc/src/sgml/start.sgml')

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/start.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/start.sgml
index 11bd7895d1e..863011a9ddd 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/start.sgml
+++ 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>
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