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  1. doc: change "can not" to "cannot"

  1. Docs: Standardize "cannot" usage in SGML source

    Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> — 2025-12-11T10:00:20Z

    Hi Hacker,

While reviewing a patch, I happened to notice the PG docs prefer “cannot”
than “can not”.

Under doc/src/sgml, if we count:
```
sgml % grep -r "cannot" . | wc -l
     818
```

“Cannot” has 818 occurrences, but “can not” has only 3:
```
sgml % grep -rE "can\s+not" .
./ecpg.sgml:     some SQL statement is declared, "database" can not be used
as a cursor
./func/func-aggregate.sgml:        The <parameter>key</parameter> can not
be null. If the
./func/func-aggregate.sgml:        The <parameter>key</parameter> can not
be null. If the
```

So, maybe we should fix these 3 and keep a consistent usage of “cannot”.

Best regards,
--
Chao Li (Evan)
HighGo Software Co., Ltd.
https://www.highgo.com/

  2. Re: Docs: Standardize "cannot" usage in SGML source

    Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> — 2025-12-24T20:12:19Z

    On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 06:00:20PM +0800, Chao Li wrote:
> Hi Hacker,
> 
> While reviewing a patch, I happened to notice the PG docs prefer “cannot” than
> “can not”.
> 
> Under doc/src/sgml, if we count:
> ```
> sgml % grep -r "cannot" . | wc -l
>      818
> ```
> 
> “Cannot” has 818 occurrences, but “can not” has only 3:

Looks good, patch applied.

-- 
  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        https://momjian.us
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  3. Re: Docs: Standardize "cannot" usage in SGML source

    Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com> — 2025-12-24T23:37:54Z

    
> On Dec 25, 2025, at 04:12, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 06:00:20PM +0800, Chao Li wrote:
>> Hi Hacker,
>> 
>> While reviewing a patch, I happened to notice the PG docs prefer “cannot” than
>> “can not”.
>> 
>> Under doc/src/sgml, if we count:
>> ```
>> sgml % grep -r "cannot" . | wc -l
>>      818
>> ```
>> 
>> “Cannot” has 818 occurrences, but “can not” has only 3:
> 
> Looks good, patch applied.
> 

Thanks a lot for pushing.

Best regards,
--
Chao Li (Evan)
HighGo Software Co., Ltd.
https://www.highgo.com/