Re: libpq documentation cleanups (repost 3)

Dmitry Igrishin <dmitigr@gmail.com>

From: Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr@gmail.com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Leslie S Satenstein <lsatenstein@yahoo.com>
Date: 2011-01-12T17:25:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
2011/1/12 Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > The attached patch is a collection of libpq documentation cleanups
> > recommended in a list of changes emailed to me by Leslie S Satenstein.
> >
> > Leslie found a number of places our libpq documentation that were unclear
> > or awkward, and this diff generated by me attempts to address them.
> >
> > I have already updated the documentation proofreading wiki:
> >
> >        http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Documentation_Proofreading
>
> I don't think changing "see below" to "refer below" or "call" to
> "execute" is an improvement; even if we did that uniformly throughout
> our documentation, surely future editors are going to reuse those
> phrasings.
>
> A lot of these other changes look pretty dubious too, although some
> seem worthwhile.
>
I propose to change "backend server" to "backend" or "server.
Robert, you mentioned that "backend server" phrase is suggest
interchangeability of "backend" or "server" but there is no term
"backend server".

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