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

Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>

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From: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-12-24T23:37:54Z
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> 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/