Re: postgresql 11 release notes

Brad, your forgot to reply to pgsql-docs.

2018-06-19 20:21 GMT-03:00 Brad DeJong <bpd0018(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> How about dropping the which clause entirely? I split this off as
> release-11-newunit-v1.patch for further discussion.
>
Works for me. Could you append it to v2?

>> <para>
>> - Exclude unlogged, temporary tables, and
>> + Exclude unlogged, temporary tables and
>> <filename>pg_internal.init</filename> files from streaming base
>> backups (David Steele)
>> </para>
>>
>> AFAIK postgres uses Oxford comma a lot.
>
> I left this change in the v2 patch.
> I didn't remove it because it was an Oxford comma; I removed it because
> there are only two items, tables and files, so this should not be a comma
> separated list.
> Unlogged and temporary both modify tables and tell us what kind of tables
> are being excluded.
> If this was a list, the items should be semi-colon separated because of the
> comma between unlogged and temporary.
> For example - Exclude unlogged, temporary tables; b-tree indexes; and
> pg_internal.init files from streaming base backups.
>
I see. I think the sentence should be "Exclude unlogged tables,
temporary tables, and <filename>pg_internal.init</filename> files from
streaming base backups".

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