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Re: "an SQL" vs. "a SQL"

David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>

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From: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-06-10T14:42:34Z
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  1. Doc: use "an SQL" consistently rather than "a SQL"

  2. Doc: use "an SQL" instead of "a SQL"

  3. Use the correct article for abbreviations

On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 at 02:04, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> wrote:
> I came up with the attached patch.

Further searching using:

git grep -E "\s(an|An)\s(F|H|L|M|N|S|X)[A-Z]{2,5}"

(i.e vowel sounding, but not actually starting with a vowel then
manually looking for pronounceable ones.)

-  by a response from client in an SASLResponse message. The particulars of
+  by a response from client in a SASLResponse message. The particulars of

-     An SHA1 hash of the random prefix and data is appended.
+     A SHA1 hash of the random prefix and data is appended.

-       requires an MIT Kerberos installation and opens TCP/IP listen sockets.
+       requires a MIT Kerberos installation and opens TCP/IP listen sockets.

I think all of these should use "a" rather than "an".

David