Re: "data" not "datums"

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: mahsh(dot)baheti(at)gmail(dot)com, PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: "data" not "datums"
Date: 2017-08-07 20:28:47
Message-ID: CAH2-WzmP0ubfC2QEnff5yj7fua_+psbyphOS-ZZLHbBjj0Qy1g@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Peter Eisentraut
<peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> "datum" means something specific in PostgreSQL, and several of those are
> most usefully "datums". "data" doesn't really convey the same meaning here.

We're not the first one to use "datums" like this. I think of it as
being like the use of "people" versus the use of "persons".

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Peter Geoghegan

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