On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 7:23 PM Daniel Gustafsson <dan...@yesql.se> wrote:
>
> > On 14 Mar 2024, at 14:21, Robert Treat <r...@xzilla.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 8:21 AM Daniel Gustafsson <dan...@yesql.se> wrote:
>
> >> -     canceling connection in <application>psql</application> wouldn't 
> >> cancel
> >> +     canceling a connection in <application>psql</application> will not 
> >> cancel
> >> Nitpickery (perhaps motivated by english not being my first language), but
> >> since psql only deals with one connection I would expect this to read "the
> >> connection".
> >>
> >
> > My interpretation of this is that "a connection" is more correct
> > because it could be your connection or someone else's connection (ie,
> > you are canceling one of many possible connections). Definitely
> > nitpickery either way.
>
> Fair point.
>
> >> - * Returns true iff the lock was acquired.
> >> + * Returns true if the lock was acquired.
> >> Using "iff" here is being consistent with the rest of the file (and 
> >> technically
> >> correct):
>
> > Ah, yeah, I was pretty focused on the event trigger stuff and didn't
> > notice it being used elsewhere; thought it was a typo, but I guess
> > it's meant as shorthand for "if and only if", I wonder how many people
> > are familiar with that.
>
> I would like to think it's fairly widely understood among programmers, but I
> might be dating myself in saying so.
>
> I went ahead and applied this with the fixes mentioned here with one more tiny
> change to the last hunk of the patch to make it say "login event trigger"
> rather than just "login trigger". Thanks for the submission!
>

LGTM, thanks!

Robert Treat
https://xzilla.net


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