| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> |
| Cc: | Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, pspung(at)northcarolina(dot)edu, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Typo |
| Date: | 2023-05-24 04:25:27 |
| Message-ID: | 1048164.1684902327@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> writes:
> On Wed, 2023-05-24 at 07:32 +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> This is the current sentence, and it sounds kind of OK to me, FWIW:
>> "Postgres95 code was completely ANSI C and trimmed in size by 25%.
> That uses "ANSI C" as an adjective, which I think is sloppy wording
> (even though English is somewhat relaxed about the distinction between
> classes of words).
Yeah, it's not great English, but it's not awful English either;
just a rather telegraphic (abbreviated) style.
Here's the thing: at this point, this documentation is itself a
historical artifact. git excavation dates the current wording to
8baa8fcf4 of 1999-06-21, and that was just a small adjustment of
c8cfb0cea of 1998-03-01, and it seems likely that that was pulled
verbatim from some older source.
So I'm disinclined to change it on grounds of "I think the grammar
is a bit shaky". It is what it is.
regards, tom lane
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