Re: pgsql: doc: use simpler language for NULL return from ANY/ALL

On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 10:20:21AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > doc: use simpler language for NULL return from ANY/ALL
> > Previously the combination of "does not return" and "any row" caused
> > ambiguity.
>
> IMO this is not an improvement. It's turned something that read
> reasonably well into something that sounds like it was written by
> a not very good speaker of English. In particular, the lack of
> grammatical matching between the two parts of the sentence is now
> quite confusing:
>
> The result is NULL if no comparison with a subquery row returns true,
> and it returns NULL for at least one row.
>
> The antecedent of "it" was clear before, and is not now, at least to me.
>
> Maybe you could replace that clause with "..., and at least one comparison
> returns NULL."

Agreed, done.

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