| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Fujii Masao <fujii(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pgsql: Avoid using ambiguous word "positive" in error message. |
| Date: | 2021-08-30 14:16:16 |
| Message-ID: | 1349356.1630332976@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> The new style seems good, but I don't really agree that "positive" and
> "non-negative" are ambiguous. "positive" means >0 and "non-negative"
> means >= 0, because 0 is neither positive nor negative.
Well, the point is precisely that not everyone makes that distinction.
I agree that everyone will read "non-negative" as ">= 0"; but there's
a fair percentage of the population that uses "positive" the same way.
regards, tom lane
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