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Re: "an SQL" vs. "a SQL"

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin@geoff.dj>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-06-13T11:36:28Z
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  1. Doc: use "an SQL" consistently rather than "a SQL"

  2. Doc: use "an SQL" instead of "a SQL"

  3. Use the correct article for abbreviations

On 6/13/21 7:13 AM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 07:36:54AM +0100, Geoff Winkless wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Jun 2021, 15:35 Alvaro Herrera, <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
>>> src/backend/libpq/auth.c:847:    * has.  If it's an MD5 hash, we must do
>>> MD5 authentication, and if it's a
>>> src/backend/libpq/auth.c:848:    * SCRAM secret, we must do SCRAM
>>> authentication.
>> Not sure whether you were just listing examples and you weren't suggesting
>> this should be changed, but surely "SCRAM" is pronounced "scram" and is
>> thus "a SCRAM"?
> RFC 5802 uses "a SCRAM something" commonly, but "a SCRAM" alone does
> not make sense:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5802
>
> The sentences quoted above look fine to me.


I don't think anyone was suggesting SCRAM should be used as a noun
rather than as an adjective. But adjectives can be preceded by an
indefinite article just as nouns can. The discussion simply left out the
implied following noun.


cheers


andrew


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