On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 11:24 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> David Rowley wrote:
>> On 21 March 2016 at 15:48, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> > David Rowley wrote:
>> >
>> >> I've rewritten the comment to become:
>> >>
>> >> /*
>> >> * Providing that the estimated size of the hashtable does not exceed
>> >> * work_mem, we'll generate a HashAgg Path, although if we were unable
>> >> * to sort above, then we'd better generate a Path, so that we at least
>> >> * have one.
>> >> */
>> >>
>> >> How about that?
>> >
>> > I think "Providing" should be "Provided".
>>
>> Both make sense, although I do only see instances of "Provided that"
>> in the source.
>
> Interesting.  "Providing that" seems awkward to me, and I had only seen
> the other wording thus far, but
> http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/149459/what-is-the-difference-between-providing-that-and-provided-that
> explains that I'm wrong.

Well, my instincts are the same as yours, actually...

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