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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Punctuation error
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 10:43:25 -0400
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In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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=?utf-8?q?PG_Doc_comments_form?= <[email protected]> writes:
> This sentence should not use a semicolon: "Both the ADD TABLE and DROP TABLE
> operations are transactional; so the table will start or stop replicating at
> the correct snapshot once the transaction has committed."

That looks perfectly fine to me.  Moreover, there are a *lot* of places
in the PG docs that we'd have to change if we got persnickety about this
sort of thing.

> You can either
> change it to a comma, or else leave out the "so" that follows the semicolon.
> The text that follows a semicolon must be a complete sentence that stands on
> its own.

I am unfamiliar with this grammar "rule", and vigorously dispute that
anyone follows it in the real world.

			regards, tom lane

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