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

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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

Cc: Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>

Date: 2025-12-24T20:12:19Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

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.

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