Re: Standardize spelling of "power of two"

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2023-08-29T09:26:13Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> On 29 Aug 2023, at 10:56, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> wrote:

> pg_resetwal and initdb has an error message like this:
> 
> msgid "argument of --wal-segsize must be a power of 2 between 1 and 1024"
> 
> In other parts in the tree, however, we spell it as "power of two". I
> think it would make sense to standardize the spelling for
> consistency. See the attached.

Agreed.  While we have numerous "power of 2" these were the only ones in
translated user-facing messages, so I've pushed this to master (it didn't seem
worth disrupting translations for 16 as we are so close to wrapping it, if
others disagree I can backpatch).

--
Daniel Gustafsson




Commits

  1. Reword user-facing message for "power of two"