Re: typo
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@2ndquadrant.com>,
Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, nawaz@fast.au.fujitsu.com,
pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2018-11-26T14:14:18Z
Lists: pgsql-docs
Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 08:17:06AM +0100, Vik Fearing wrote: >> On 26/11/2018 08:03, Magnus Hagander wrote: >>> Are you sure that's right? To me the original wording of that sentence >>> seems to convey the message properly, and the update done does not? >> Yeah, I just found this on the committers list and I disagree with the >> change as well. > [... checking around ...] > Hm. I have read the sentence and the surroundings a couple of times > before doing anything, and using an adverb looked clearer than the > adjective. Is an adjective more appropriate than an adverb here because > it insists more on the fact that each row is involved? Just trying to > grab the difference. I think that text is mine originally, and it was not a typo. The meaning of "table rows proper", in this case, is basically "table rows themelves". The first dictionary I looked at gives this example: PROPER Adjective [ chiefly British ] ... [ postpositive ] Strictly so called; in its true form. "some of the dos and don'ts in espionage proper" But I can see that a lot of people might not be familiar with that usage, so I've got no objections to rewriting it more clearly --- any suggestions? regards, tom lane
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Fix typo in documentation of toast storage
- efc9a3876ed9 9.4.21 landed
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