Merge branch 'gr-gh-pages-develop' into gh-pages

2 files changed, 34 insertions, 23 deletions

diff --git a/docs/installing/macos.md b/docs/installing/macos.md
index c46bdf4ba..e93ea452f 100644
--- a/docs/installing/macos.md
+++ b/docs/installing/macos.md
@@ -88,17 +88,27 @@ The following is mostly from [the manual installation process]({{ site.baseurl}}
 
 ### Configure database
 
-Creates Alaveteli databases and an `foi` user with password `foi`.
-
-    echo "CREATE DATABASE foi_development encoding = 'UTF8';
-    CREATE DATABASE foi_test encoding = 'UTF8';
-    CREATE USER foi WITH CREATEUSER;
-    ALTER USER foi WITH PASSWORD 'foi';
-    ALTER USER foi WITH CREATEDB;
-    GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE foi_development TO foi;
-    GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE foi_test TO foi;
-    ALTER DATABASE foi_development OWNER TO foi;
-    ALTER DATABASE foi_test OWNER TO foi;" | psql -h localhost template1
+Create a database for your Mac user as homebrew doesn't create one by default:
+
+    createdb
+
+Create a `foi` user from the command line, like this:
+
+    createuser -s -P foi
+
+_Note:_ Leaving the password blank will cause great confusion if you're new to
+PostgreSQL.
+
+We'll create a template for our Alaveteli databases:
+
+    createdb -T template0 -E UTF-8 template_utf8
+    echo "update pg_database set datistemplate=true where datname='template_utf8';" | psql
+
+Then create the databases:
+
+    createdb -T template_utf8 -O foi alaveteli_production
+    createdb -T template_utf8 -O foi alaveteli_test
+    createdb -T template_utf8 -O foi alaveteli_development
 
 ### Clone Alaveteli
 
diff --git a/docs/installing/manual_install.md b/docs/installing/manual_install.md
index d3a629155..bf2f9b7cd 100644
--- a/docs/installing/manual_install.md
+++ b/docs/installing/manual_install.md
@@ -175,20 +175,20 @@ Create a `foi` user from the command line, like this:
 _Note:_ Leaving the password blank will cause great confusion if you're new to
 PostgreSQL.
 
-Then create the databases:
+We'll create a template for our Alaveteli databases:
+
+    # sudo -u postgres createdb -T template0 -E UTF-8 template_utf8
+    # echo "update pg_database set datistemplate=true where datname='template_utf8';" > /tmp/update-template.sql
+    # sudo -u postgres psql -f /tmp/update-template.sql
 
-    # sudo -u postgres createdb -T template0 -E SQL_ASCII -O foi foi_production
-    # sudo -u postgres createdb -T template0 -E SQL_ASCII -O foi foi_test
-    # sudo -u postgres createdb -T template0 -E SQL_ASCII -O foi foi_development
+Then create the databases:
 
-We create using the ``SQL_ASCII`` encoding, because in postgres this is means
-"no encoding"; and because we handle and store all kinds of data that may not
-be valid UTF (for example, data originating from various broken email clients
-that's not 8-bit clean), it's safer to be able to store *anything*, than reject
-data at runtime.
+    # sudo -u postgres createdb -T template_utf8 -O foi alaveteli_production
+    # sudo -u postgres createdb -T template_utf8 -O foi alaveteli_test
+    # sudo -u postgres createdb -T template_utf8 -O foi alaveteli_development
 
-Now you need to set up the database config file to contain the name, username
-and password of your postgres database.
+Now you need to set up the database config file so that the application can
+connect to the postgres database.
 
 * Copy `database.yml-example` to `database.yml` in `alaveteli/config`
 * Edit it to point to your local postgresql database in the development
@@ -198,7 +198,8 @@ Example `development` section of `config/database.yml`:
 
     development:
       adapter: postgresql
-      database: foi_development
+      template: template_utf8
+      database: alaveteli_development
       username: foi
       password: secure-password-here
       host: localhost