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Re: typos (and more)

Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>

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From: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>
Date: 2021-09-28T00:50:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 06:04:02PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2021-Sep-27, Michael Paquier wrote:
> 
> > The use
> > of "statistic", "statistics" and "statistics object" in 0008 and 0012
> > is indeed inconsistent.  The latter term is the most used, but it
> > sounds a bit weird to me even if it refers to the DDL object
> > manipulated.  Simply using "statistics" would be tempting.
> 
> Initially we just used "statistic" as a noun, which IIRC was already
> grammatically wrong (but I didn't know that and I think Tomas didn't
> either); later at some point when discussing how to use that noun in
> plural we realized this and argued that merely using "statistics" was
> even more wrong.  It was then that we started using the term "statistics
> object" with plural "statistics objects".  Going back to using just
> "statistics" is unlikely to have become correct; I think Justin's
> patches 0008 and 0012 are correct.

Attached is an updated patch fixing more of the same.

-- 
Justin

Commits

  1. Clarify use of "statistics objects" in the code

  2. Fix typos and grammar in code comments

  3. Fix typos in docs