Charles Obler writes:
> Programmer's Guide, 8.2.3. Connecting to the Database
>
> According to the documentation, the URL includes what is called
> "the database name". I assumed that the fully qualified path
Don't assume. ;-)
> name was intended here, since that is what normally appears in a
> URL. How else does one unambiguously identify a file?
What file?
> One or two examples are needed in this section to make it clear
> that postgresql has its own directory of "registered" databases,
> and the "database name" in question is the name in this
> registry, not the database filename.
Nowhere does it say that databases have file names. Where do you get that
idea?
> Tutorial Chapter 2:
The tutorial is not very well maintained (if at all). Thanks for finding
these problems. (It was once merged from a TeX file, FYI.)
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