Re: Change "two" to "three" for decades of development in history

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Erik Wienhold <ewie(at)ewie(dot)name>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Kirk Parker <khp(at)equatoria(dot)us>, pbaumard(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Change "two" to "three" for decades of development in history
Date: 2023-06-23 01:22:08
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On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 03:17:26AM +0200, Erik Wienhold wrote:
> An SGML entity [0] or an xsltproc stringparam [1] looks viable. Question is
> how to calculate the number of decades in the Makefile. It's trivial in SQL :)

- University of California at Berkeley. With over two decades of
+ University of California at Berkeley. With over three decades of
development behind it, <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> is now
the most advanced open-source database available anywhere.

Seeing what has been committed, I don't think that such complications
are necessary if this sentence is reworded without numbers. For
instance:
"With multiple decades of development behind it, PostgreSQL.."

My 2c.
--
Michael

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