Re: Site Administrators Gendered

From: Chris Travers <chris(dot)travers(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: case(dot)rollins(at)gmail(dot)com, Postgres Documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Site Administrators Gendered
Date: 2017-07-14 04:18:51
Message-ID: CAKt_ZfsyO0=0Ld7Ym1FBAzxg0FqX8+3LX8czd==mTtS-heJb9A@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 11:27 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
wrote:

> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > case(dot)rollins(at)gmail(dot)com wrote:
> >
> > > &quot;Possibly, your site administrator has already created a database
> for your
> > > use. He should have told you what the name of your database is.&quot;
> > >
> > > should be
> > >
> > > &quot;Possibly, your site administrator has already created a database
> for your
> > > use. They should have told you what the name of your database is.&quot;
> > >
> > > I imagine this mistake occurs elsewhere in the docs. It would be great
> to
> > > see it fixed across the board.
> >
> > Sure. This has been discussed before, I believe. Feel free to submit a
> > patch.
>
> Actually, this has already been patched; see
> http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/741ccd5015f82e31f80cdc5d2ae812
> 63ea92d794
> The problem is that you're reading an ancient version of the docs.
> A more recent version of the page does not have that problem:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/tutorial-createdb.html

We should fix the number agreement problem with the replacement. Make site
administrator plural.

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