From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> |
Cc: | Octopus ZHANG <zhangysh1995(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Typo in Documentation for Version 12 Section 40.3 |
Date: | 2020-01-09 13:57:54 |
Message-ID: | 22547.1578578274@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> writes:
>> On 9 Jan 2020, at 10:34, Octopus ZHANG <zhangysh1995(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> I partially agree. But with the context, it doesn't assume we want `view<->visualize` the data. It also says:
>>> Another use for a materialized view is to allow faster access to data brought across from a remote system through a foreign data wrapper.
>> It is talking about 'the view' not the graph.
> My reading is that it's referring to the usecase for the view, and that is to
> use the summarized data in a graph. So I think it's correct.
The first sentence uses "graph" as a verb, while the next one uses
"graph" as a noun. Both are correct English, but I can understand that
the inconsistency might confuse non-native speakers. Not sure if it's
worth changing.
regards, tom lane
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