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

Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin@geoff.dj>

From: Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin@geoff.dj>

To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

Cc: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2021-06-13T06:36:54Z

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Doc: use "an SQL" consistently rather than "a SQL"
- a78cf591a3f5 19 (unreleased) landed
- d866f0374ca6 16.0 landed
- 7bdd489d3d32 15.0 landed
Doc: use "an SQL" instead of "a SQL"
- b1b13d2b524e 17.0 landed
Use the correct article for abbreviations
- 04539e73faaa 14.0 landed

On Thu, 10 Jun 2021, 15:35 Alvaro Herrera, <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:

> src/backend/libpq/auth.c:847:    * has.  If it's an MD5 hash, we must do
> MD5 authentication, and if it's a
> src/backend/libpq/auth.c:848:    * SCRAM secret, we must do SCRAM
> authentication.
>

Not sure whether you were just listing examples and you weren't suggesting
this should be changed, but surely "SCRAM" is pronounced "scram" and is
thus "a SCRAM"?

Geoff