Norman Clarke writes:
> I am interested in volunteering some time to helping with the documentation
Good. Not sure exactly what you want to do, but we need help in just
about every area, including proof-reading/copy-editing sort of stuff,
markup/consistency improvements, verification of example
Hello,
Before the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US I had been following with
great interest the thread regarding Vadim's English and the postgres docs.
Since this was posted about 200 messages ago, I replied as a new thread... I
hope you don't mind!
I am interested in volunteering some tim
> It would be a pleasure to help with the spanish docs, if any help is needed.
There is a documentation translation effort hosted in Spain, and I'm
sure that they would welcome help to stay current (I believe that a
substantial portion of docs are already done for a recent, but perhaps
not curren
On Wednesday 22 November 2000 02:36, Don Baccus wrote:
>
> >More generally, a lot of the PG documentation could use the attention
> >of a professional copy editor --- and I'm sad to say that the parts
> >contributed by native English speakers aren't necessarily any cleaner
> >than the parts contri
Tom Lane wrote:
>
> More generally, a lot of the PG documentation could use the attention
> of a professional copy editor --- and I'm sad to say that the parts
> contributed by native English speakers aren't necessarily any cleaner
> than the parts contributed by those who are not.
The differen
> I might be interested in helping with it. Whats involved (DocBook, SGML)?
Yup. The PostgreSQL source tree has a docs directory with all of the
sources for the docs. I use emacs for editing, and several other options
are discussed in the appendix on documentation in the doc set.
On Wednesday 22 November 2000 00:54, Tom Lane wrote:
> > I don't know from your post if you thought I was adding
> > to the criticism or not, but I can say with certainty I wasn't.
>
> No, I saw that you understood perfectly, I just wanted to add another
> two cents...
>
> > I'm not denigrating th
> I think it's certain that the original poster didn't realize Vadim is not
> a native English speaker, which is why I made my comment (to clue him in).
> Vadim didn't take my comment as criticism, as his follow-on post
> made clear
> (he got the joke). I don't know from your post if you thought
> I don't know from your post if you thought I was adding
> to the criticism or not, but I can say with certainty I wasn't.
No, I saw that you understood perfectly, I just wanted to add another
two cents...
> I'm not denigrating the current efforts, because PG documention's pretty
> good all th
At 12:29 AM 11/22/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Is there any particular reason the spelling and punctuation in the code
>>> snippet below is so bad?
>
>> Vadim's Russian. This impacts his english but not his ability to implement
>> complex features like MVCC and WAL :)
>
>As someone who can't spe
> As someone who can't speak anything but English worth a damn (even
> though I was raised in Spanish-speaking countries, so you'd think
> I'd have acquired at least one clue), I have long since learned not
> to criticize the English of non-native speakers. Many of the
> participants in this proj
>> Is there any particular reason the spelling and punctuation in the code
>> snippet below is so bad?
> Vadim's Russian. This impacts his english but not his ability to implement
> complex features like MVCC and WAL :)
As someone who can't speak anything but English worth a damn (even
though I
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Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 5:37 PM
Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Crash during WAL recovery?
> > >Is there any particular reason the spe
> >Is there any particular reason the spelling and punctuation
> in the code
> >snippet below is so bad?
>
> Vadim's Russian. This impacts his english but not his
> ability to implement complex features like MVCC and WAL :)
Yes, sorry guys. C lang is much easier -:))
Vadim
At 09:14 AM 11/22/00 +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>Is there any particular reason the spelling and punctuation in the code
>snippet below is so bad?
Vadim's Russian. This impacts his english but not his ability to implement
complex features like MVCC and WAL :)
- Don Baccus, Portland
SQL Development
> Subject: [HACKERS] Crash during WAL recovery?
>
>
> This snippet in xlog.c makes we wonder...
>
> else if (ControlFile->state == DB_IN_RECOVERY)
> {
> elog(LOG, "Data Base System was interrupted being
> in recovery at %s\n&quo
At 02:01 PM 11/21/00 -0800, Mikheev, Vadim wrote:
>> This snippet in xlog.c makes we wonder...
>>
>> else if (ControlFile->state == DB_IN_RECOVERY)
>> {
>> elog(LOG, "Data Base System was interrupted
>> being in recovery at %s\n"
>> "\tThis propably m
> This snippet in xlog.c makes we wonder...
>
> else if (ControlFile->state == DB_IN_RECOVERY)
> {
> elog(LOG, "Data Base System was interrupted
> being in recovery at %s\n"
>"\tThis propably means that some data
> blocks are corrupted\n"
>
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