From 442c992e9586c3e33d9fc2bf20c73b8c625a1129 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:57:45 +1200
Subject: [PATCH] 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
---
 doc/src/sgml/ref/clusterdb.sgml | 5 ++---
 doc/src/sgml/ref/reindexdb.sgml | 5 ++---
 doc/src/sgml/ref/vacuumdb.sgml  | 5 ++---
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/clusterdb.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/clusterdb.sgml
index c838b22c440..b81bc2dc48e 100644
--- 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 8cb8bf4fa39..5ce1c581650 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindexdb.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/reindexdb.sgml
@@ -361,9 +361,8 @@ 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 223b986b920..2d2330c05cb 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/vacuumdb.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/vacuumdb.sgml
@@ -504,9 +504,8 @@ 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
-- 
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