Re: Site Administrators Gendered

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: case(dot)rollins(at)gmail(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Site Administrators Gendered
Date: 2017-07-13 21:27:13
Message-ID: 20170713212713.mefw67nm7thuj4di@alvherre.pgsql
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> case(dot)rollins(at)gmail(dot)com wrote:
>
> > &quot;Possibly, your site administrator has already created a database for your
> > use. He should have told you what the name of your database is.&quot;
> >
> > should be
> >
> > &quot;Possibly, your site administrator has already created a database for your
> > use. They should have told you what the name of your database is.&quot;
> >
> > I imagine this mistake occurs elsewhere in the docs. It would be great to
> > see it fixed across the board.
>
> Sure. This has been discussed before, I believe. Feel free to submit a
> patch.

Actually, this has already been patched; see
http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/741ccd5015f82e31f80cdc5d2ae81263ea92d794
The problem is that you're reading an ancient version of the docs.
A more recent version of the page does not have that problem:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/tutorial-createdb.html

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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