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Re: Typo/wording on https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/catalog-pg-class.html

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

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From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: mpnash@google.com, pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2023-09-20T08:52:51Z
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> On 20 Sep 2023, at 07:23, PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> wrote:
> 
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> 
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/catalog-pg-class.html
> Description:
> 
> I've just read this:
> 
> "catalogs tables and most everything else that has columns or is otherwise
> similar to a table"
> 
> It seems that it should be:
> 
> "catalogs tables and almost everything else that has columns or is otherwise
> similar to a table"
> 
> So, "most" becomes "almost".

While I'm not a native english speaker I do believe this wording is correct
(although I guess your version would be semantically the same or very close to
it).  It was done in commit 83501ef4ca some 20+ years ago.

--
Daniel Gustafsson

Commits

  1. Doc: copy-edit the introductory para for the pg_class catalog.

  2. Update info about relkind and pg_type entries for composite-types patch.