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Re: doc review for v13

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

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From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: James Coleman <jtc331@gmail.com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>
Date: 2020-04-27T06:03:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 08:59:05PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> James Coleman <jtc331@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:13 PM Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> wrote:
>>> I think my text is correct.  This would *also* be correct:
>>> |       If any <literal>CHECK</literal> constraint on the table being
>>> |       attached is marked <literal>NO INHERIT</literal>, the command will fail;
>>> But not the hybrid: "If any OF THE .. is .."
> 
>> "any of the...are" sounds more natural to my ears,
> 
> Yeah, I think the same.  If you want to argue grammar, I'd point
> out that the "any" could refer to several of the constraints,
> making it correct to use the plural verb.  The alternative that
> Justin mentions could be written as "If any one constraint is ...",
> which is correct in that form; but the plural way seems less stilted.

Hm, okay.  There are still pieces in those patches about which I am
not sure, so I have let that aside for the time being.

Anyway, I have applied patch 12, and reported the typos from imath.c
directly to upstream:
https://github.com/creachadair/imath/issues/45
https://github.com/creachadair/imath/issues/46
--
Michael

Commits

  1. Copy editing: fix a bunch of misspellings and poor wording.

  2. doc: Fix some grammar and inconsistencies

  3. Fix some comments referring to past features

  4. Fix typos and some format mistakes in comments

  5. Fix some typos

  6. Fix collection of typos and grammar mistakes in the tree, volume 2

  7. Rename pg_validatebackup to pg_verifybackup.

  8. Fix collection of typos and grammar mistakes in the tree