| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Little cleanup of ShmemInit function names |
| Date: | 2024-08-29 01:06:45 |
| Message-ID: | 202408290106.j3pjce7rv6zc@alvherre.pgsql |
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On 2024-Aug-28, Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> writes:
> > Hmm, I don't see the issue. It's an uncommon sentence structure, but it
> > was there before this patch, and it's correct AFAICS. If you grep for
> > "which see ", you'll find some more examples of that.
>
> I didn't check the git history for this particular line, but at least
> some of those examples are mine. I'm pretty certain it's good English.
As a non-native speaker, I'm always grateful for examples of unusual
grammatical constructs. They have given me many more opportunities for
growth than if all comments were restricted to simple English. I have
had many a chance to visit english.stackexchange.net on account of
something I read in pgsql lists or code comments.
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Álvaro Herrera 48°01'N 7°57'E — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
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