Re: Postgres 11 release notes

On 2018/09/27 23:24, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2018-Sep-27, Amit Langote wrote:
>
>> Sorry I couldn't reply sooner, but the following of your proposed text
>> needs to be updated a bit:
>>
>> + <listitem>
>> + <para>
>> + Having a "default" partition for storing data that does not match a
>> + partition key
>> + </para>
>> + </listitem>
>>
>> I think "does not match a partition key" is not accurate. Description of
>> default partitions further below in the release notes says this:
>>
>> "The default partition can store rows that don't match any of the other
>> defined partitions, and is searched accordingly."
>>
>> So, we could perhaps write it as:
>>
>> Having a "default" partition for storing data that does not match any of
>> the remaining partitions
>
> Yeah, I agree that "a partition key" is not the right term to use there
> (and that term is used in the press release text also). However I don't
> think "remaining" is the right word there either, because it sounds as
> if you're removing something.
>
> For the Spanish translation of the press release, we ended up using the
> equivalent of "for the data that does not match any other partition".

Yeah, "any other partition" is what the existing description uses too, so:

Having a "default" partition for storing data that does not match any
other partition

Thanks,
Amit