Adjust some glossary terms

Mostly in response to Jürgen Purtz critique of previous definitions,
though I added many other changes.

Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Jürgen Purtz <juergen@purtz.de>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c1e06008-2132-30f4-9b38-877e8683d418@purtz.de