Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qEYLt-0005kR-K2 for pgsql-docs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:49:09 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qEYLs-00076Y-H6 for pgsql-docs@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:49:08 +0000 Received: from magus.postgresql.org ([2a02:c0:301:0:ffff::29]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qEYLs-00076F-9p for pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org; Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:49:08 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1qEYLp-0010HY-Rv for pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org; Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:49:07 +0000 Received: from sss1.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 35SGn3c41237556; Wed, 28 Jun 2023 12:49:03 -0400 From: Tom Lane To: Bruce Momjian cc: anton.sidyakin@gmail.com, pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org Subject: Re: bad choice of the word in sentence In-reply-to: References: <168745911769.2239590.6062411529242609290@wrigleys.postgresql.org> <112752.1687569399@sss.pgh.pa.us> Comments: In-reply-to Bruce Momjian message dated "Fri, 23 Jun 2023 21:20:35 -0400" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <1237554.1687970943.1@sss.pgh.pa.us> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2023 12:49:03 -0400 Message-ID: <1237555.1687970943@sss.pgh.pa.us> List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk Bruce Momjian writes: > On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 09:16:39PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: >> I think this sentence is formally correct, but it is not very hard to >> misparse. Maybe a bit of re-ordering would help? Like >> ... it never sees either uncommitted data or changes committed by >> concurrent transactions during the query's execution. > Sure. Done that way. regards, tom lane