Re: Manua correction

2021-07-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 04:06:17PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 11:03:09AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > The places where you changed "substring(s)" to "substrings" are maybe > > not flat wrong, but I don't think they're improving the text either. > > IIRC, in most of them you

Re: Manua correction

2021-07-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 11:03:09AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian writes: > > I really don't understand the use of "(s)" except in place where we are > > really trying to point out the idea of one or multiple, and I don't see > > that being significant in these cases --- can you clarify? >

Re: Manua correction

2021-07-20 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian writes: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:12:38PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> At least two of these changes are flat out wrong. The places >> that explicitly mention "substring(s)" are not doing so because >> we failed to think about what that meant. > I really don't understand the use of

Re: Manua correction

2021-07-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:12:38PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian writes: > > Interesting. I see several cases where our docs are not clear we > > process only the first match: > > At least two of these changes are flat out wrong. The places > that explicitly mention "substring(s)" are

Re: Manua correction

2021-07-15 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian writes: > Interesting. I see several cases where our docs are not clear we > process only the first match: At least two of these changes are flat out wrong. The places that explicitly mention "substring(s)" are not doing so because we failed to think about what that meant.

Re: Manua correction

2021-07-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 02:24:01AM +, PG Doc comments form wrote: > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: > > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/functions-string.html > Description: > > Hopefully the referrer page was kept. I'm referring to the string funct

Manua correction

2021-07-13 Thread PG Doc comments form
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/functions-string.html Description: Hopefully the referrer page was kept. I'm referring to the string functions page that reads... == position ( substring text IN string text ) → integer R