Doc: reword text explaining the --maintenance-db option

The previous text was a little clumsy.  Here we improve that.

Author: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Noboru Saito <noborusai@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAM3qnJtv5YbjpwDfVOYN2gZ9zGSLFM1UGJgptSXmwfifOZJFQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/clusterdb.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/clusterdb.sgml
index c838b22c4405349928125534867592a5b1fab1d8..b81bc2dc48e613ba2bacb17eab9957064b14829f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/clusterdb.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/clusterdb.sgml
@@ -249,9 +249,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
       <term><option>--maintenance-db=<replaceable class="parameter">dbname</replaceable></option></term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-        Specifies the name of the database to connect to to discover which
-        databases should be clustered,
-        when <option>-a</option>/<option>--all</option> is used.
+        When the <option>-a</option>/<option>--all</option> is used, connect
+        to this database to gather the list of databases to cluster.
         If not specified, the <literal>postgres</literal> database will be used,
         or if that does not exist, <literal>template1</literal> will be used.
         This can be a <link linkend="libpq-connstring">connection

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindexdb.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindexdb.sgml
index dd1c9e527435b6fc0ff81ef12d398c2f9e9be25b..309951e46ff11186ace524024ece81ac3db25059 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindexdb.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindexdb.sgml
@@ -351,9 +351,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
       <term><option>--maintenance-db=<replaceable class="parameter">dbname</replaceable></option></term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-        Specifies the name of the database to connect to to discover which
-        databases should be reindexed,
-        when <option>-a</option>/<option>--all</option> is used.
+        When the <option>-a</option>/<option>--all</option> is used, connect
+        to this database to gather the list of databases to reindex.
         If not specified, the <literal>postgres</literal> database will be used,
         or if that does not exist, <literal>template1</literal> will be used.
         This can be a <link linkend="libpq-connstring">connection

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/vacuumdb.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/vacuumdb.sgml
index 61c2e7d237330fe3a340e3673b228d72ff9edda6..62c05ecab208a035a827f1e431ce1aef47d12397 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/vacuumdb.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/vacuumdb.sgml
@@ -444,9 +444,8 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
       <term><option>--maintenance-db=<replaceable class="parameter">dbname</replaceable></option></term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-        Specifies the name of the database to connect to to discover which
-        databases should be vacuumed,
-        when <option>-a</option>/<option>--all</option> is used.
+        When the <option>-a</option>/<option>--all</option> is used, connect
+        to this database to gather the list of databases to vacuum.
         If not specified, the <literal>postgres</literal> database will be used,
         or if that does not exist, <literal>template1</literal> will be used.
         This can be a <link linkend="libpq-connstring">connection