Re: Manua correction

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: troy(at)frericks(dot)us, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Manua correction
Date: 2021-07-27 02:55:25
Message-ID: 20210727025525.GC19774@momjian.us
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On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 04:06:17PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 11:03:09AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > The places where you changed "substring(s)" to "substrings" are maybe
> > not flat wrong, but I don't think they're improving the text either.
> > IIRC, in most of them you get one match if you didn't use the 'g'
> > flag, but possibly multiple matches if you did, and the "substring(s)"
> > wording is meant to allude to that without taking the space to spell
> > it out explicitly.
>
> I see what you mean --- there can be multiple capture groups, and
> multiple match processing if 'g' is used. I think the text using "(s)"
> is too complex, so I spelled out the use 'g' and clarified the case of
> multiple groups in a single regex.
>
> Updated patch attached, and I used a larger line context around the
> changes to clarify what was being modified.

Patch applied back to PG 13 --- before that, the text supplied as much
more minimal.

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