On Friday, July 8, 2022, Bruce Momjian <
bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 10:17:11PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 08:20:25PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I agree this phrasing needs some work, but "resolved" doesn't seem
> >> helpful, since it's not defined here or nearby. Maybe "The default
> >> database name is the specified (or defaulted) user name." ?
>
> > I am not seeing much improvement in the proposed patch either. I wonder
> > if we should be calling this the "session" or "connection" user name.
> > When the docs say "if you do not specify a database name, it defaults to
> > the database user name", there is so much "database in there that the
> > meaing is unclear, and in this context, the user name is a property of
> > the connection or session, not of the database.
>
> Umm ... you could make the exact same statement with respect to the
> user's operating-system login session, so I doubt that "session" or
> "connection" adds any clarity.
Well, one confusion is that there is a database name and a database user
name. We don't have different operating system names that users can
connect to, usually.
Maybe invoke the wording from the libpq docs and say:
The default database name is the same as the user connection parameter.
That page doesn’t feel the need to qualify user name and I don’t think it hurts comprehension; and the writing “user parameter” there, instead of “user name”, since the parameter is simply “user”, not “username”.
David J.