On Thu, 2005-13-10 at 00:39 -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> Correct several typos in the documentation.
Applied to HEAD -- thanks for the patch.
I also removed the comment from the cvs.sgml file.
-Neil
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On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 06:18:08PM -0400, Neil Conway wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-13-10 at 00:39 -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> > Correct several typos in the documentation.
>
> Are there any remaining objections to this patch? Otherwise, I'll apply
> it within 24 hours.
I could submit a version with ran
On Thu, 2005-13-10 at 00:39 -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> Correct several typos in the documentation.
Are there any remaining objections to this patch? Otherwise, I'll apply
it within 24 hours.
-Neil
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So what? I just don't see consistency as being a value in itself, but
only when it has some other merit. Clearly you don't agree, but I am
with Emerson on the subject of consistency.
So you're saying you're consistent in your objections to consistency? :)
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Neil Conway wrote:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-s
>tyle.html
I can heartily recommend this, and I have deferred to this many times
over the years.
I disagree with the point on "Avoid redundant phrases", though, and in
fact it contradicts error message st
Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> Is there an official spelling standard for PostgreSQL?
While nothing is ever really official around here, the documentation is
susceptible to being hit by my spell-checking tool, which has
historically tended to use whatever "american" aspell dictionary I had
installed a
Michael Fuhr wrote:
That's 5 changes out of 245 total occurrences.
So what? I just don't see consistency as being a value in itself, but
only when it has some other merit. Clearly you don't agree, but I am
with Emerson on the subject of consistency.
cheers
andrew
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On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 01:48:11PM -0400, Neil Conway wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-13-10 at 12:17 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > I don't agree that we need to force one spelling of common words when
> > many dictionaries recognise the validity of variant spellings.
>
> There is obviously no "need" to f
On Thu, 2005-13-10 at 12:17 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> I don't agree that we need to force one spelling of common words when
> many dictionaries recognise the validity of variant spellings.
There is obviously no "need" to force the use of one spelling variant or
another. However, I think it is
Michael Fuhr wrote:
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:55:55AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
You seem to have lots of time on your hands if you can worry about this.
How you spend it is your business, of course, but playing spelling cop
doesn't seem worth it to me.
Whether you agree or not,
On Thu, 2005-13-10 at 10:16 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Given that a substantial fraction of our community is accustomed to
> British spellings, I've never felt that it was appropriate to try to
> standardize either way.
The same reasoning applies to the audience of (and contributors to) most
publica
On Thu, 2005-13-10 at 09:55 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> You seem to have lots of time on your hands if you can worry about this.
> How you spend it is your business, of course, but playing spelling cop
> doesn't seem worth it to me.
I think it's a perfectly valid thing to fix. Part of quality
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:55:55AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> You seem to have lots of time on your hands if you can worry about this.
> How you spend it is your business, of course, but playing spelling cop
> doesn't seem worth it to me.
Whether you agree or not, some people judge a product
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there an official spelling standard for PostgreSQL?
There is not. Given that a substantial fraction of our community is
accustomed to British spellings, I've never felt that it was appropriate
to try to standardize either way. I just leave it the w
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> Andrew Dunstan
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> To: Michael Fuhr
> Cc: pgsql-patches@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Documentation typos
>
>
> You seem t
Michael Fuhr wrote:
I took the liberty of making the following spelling changes for
consistency with the rest of the documentation, even though the
originals are the preferred spellings in some parts of the English-
speaking world. I found only one or two instances of each; the
latter forms w
On Thu, 2005-13-10 at 00:39 -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> *** doc/src/sgml/cvs.sgml 11 Aug 2005 13:52:33 - 1.34
> --- doc/src/sgml/cvs.sgml 13 Oct 2005 06:15:38 -
> ***
> *** 849,855
> to you the malloc code and an additional installation e-mail from
> Joh
Correct several typos in the documentation.
I took the liberty of making the following spelling changes for
consistency with the rest of the documentation, even though the
originals are the preferred spellings in some parts of the English-
speaking world. I found only one or two instances of each
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