Hackers,

Ended up looking at "non-default" and found four spellings of "nondefault"
in the user-facing documentation (vs. 40ish non-default). Patch attached to
fix the 4.

David J.
From a6be282e935d294f5cb8e8771b214987916943f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "David G. Johnston" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:44:57 -0700
Subject: [PATCH v1] docs: Use 'non-default' throughout the documentation


diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
index 5560b95ee60..c9e32e7d72a 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml
@@ -9875,7 +9875,7 @@ COPY postgres_log FROM '/full/path/to/logfile.csv' WITH csv;
         to specify using the default tablespace of the current database.
         If the value does not match the name of any existing tablespace,
         <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> will automatically use the default
-        tablespace of the current database.  If a nondefault tablespace
+        tablespace of the current database.  If a non-default tablespace
         is specified, the user must have <literal>CREATE</literal> privilege
         for it, or creation attempts will fail.
        </para>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
index 9070aaa5a7c..ef67a45da14 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
@@ -1963,7 +1963,7 @@ ALTER TABLE products ADD COLUMN description text;
      each row will need to be updated with the value calculated at the time
      <command>ALTER TABLE</command> is executed. To avoid a potentially
      lengthy update operation, particularly if you intend to fill the column
-     with mostly nondefault values anyway, it may be preferable to add the
+     with mostly non-default values anyway, it may be preferable to add the
      column with no default, insert the correct values using
      <command>UPDATE</command>, and then add any desired default as described
      below.
@@ -2863,7 +2863,7 @@ GRANT SELECT (col1), UPDATE (col1) ON mytable TO miriam_rw;
    privileges (producing, for
    example, <literal>miriam=arwdDxt/miriam</literal>) and then modify them
    per the specified request.  Similarly, entries are shown in <quote>Column
-   privileges</quote> only for columns with nondefault privileges.
+   privileges</quote> only for columns with non-default privileges.
    (Note: for this purpose, <quote>default privileges</quote> always means
    the built-in default privileges for the object's type.  An object whose
    privileges have been affected by an <command>ALTER DEFAULT
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_resetwal.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_resetwal.sgml
index 41f2b1d480c..85577c5cca6 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_resetwal.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_resetwal.sgml
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
      </para>
 
      <para>
-      Note that when using nondefault WAL segment sizes, the numbers in the WAL
+      Note that when using non-default WAL segment sizes, the numbers in the WAL
       file names are different from the LSNs that are reported by system
       functions and system views.  This option takes a WAL file name, not an
       LSN.
-- 
2.43.0

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