From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: pgsql: doc: use simpler language for NULL return from ANY/ALL
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 13:05:38 -0400
Message-ID: <20181102170538.GA4855@momjian.us> (raw)
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On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 10:20:21AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > doc: use simpler language for NULL return from ANY/ALL
> > Previously the combination of "does not return" and "any row" caused
> > ambiguity.
>
> IMO this is not an improvement. It's turned something that read
> reasonably well into something that sounds like it was written by
> a not very good speaker of English. In particular, the lack of
> grammatical matching between the two parts of the sentence is now
> quite confusing:
>
> The result is NULL if no comparison with a subquery row returns true,
> and it returns NULL for at least one row.
>
> The antecedent of "it" was clear before, and is not now, at least to me.
>
> Maybe you could replace that clause with "..., and at least one comparison
> returns NULL."
Agreed, done.
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