From c7ac2b0e1264c0d2c130aa071b4698d5e6342e63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Bostock Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 14:03:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Make references to PostgreSQL consistent While many pronounce it as 'post-GRES', the spelling is 'PostgreSQL' with two 's'. https://www.postgresql.org/about/press/faq/ --- README.md | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 8ca28973..0f393289 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -2,10 +2,10 @@ [![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/github/wrouesnel/postgres_exporter/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://coveralls.io/github/wrouesnel/postgres_exporter?branch=master) [![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/wrouesnel/postgres_exporter)](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/wrouesnel/postgres_exporter) -# PostgresSQL Server Exporter +# PostgreSQL Server Exporter -Prometheus exporter for PostgresSQL server metrics. -Supported Postgres versions: 9.1 and up. +Prometheus exporter for PostgreSQL server metrics. +Supported PostgreSQL versions: 9.1 and up. ## Quick Start This package is available for Docker: @@ -42,9 +42,9 @@ Package vendoring is handled with [`govendor`](https://github.com/kardianos/gove * `web.telemetry-path` Path under which to expose metrics. -### Setting the Postgres server's data source name +### Setting the PostgreSQL server's data source name -The PostgresSQL server's [data source name](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_source_name) +The PostgreSQL server's [data source name](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_source_name) must be set via the `DATA_SOURCE_NAME` environment variable. For running it locally on a default Debian/Ubuntu install, this will work (transpose to init script as appropriate): @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ See the [github.com/lib/pq](http://github.com/lib/pq) module for other ways to f The exporter will attempt to dynamically export additional metrics if they are added in the future, but they will be marked as "untyped". Additional metric maps can be easily created -from Postgres documentation by copying the tables and using the following Python snippet: +from PostgreSQL documentation by copying the tables and using the following Python snippet: ```python x = """tab separated raw text of a documentation table"""