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To: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Cc: matematica.a3k@gmail.com <matematica.a3k@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org <pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [Minor] Duplicated word in "Creating a Database" tutorial
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:47:38 -0400
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"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> On Friday, September 25, 2026, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
>> It seems like a correct sentence to me, removing as per your suggestion
>> would
>> AFAICT make it grammatically incorrect.
> Probably, but wouldn’t saying “this user” instead of “that user” be equally
> correct without making the word “that” serve two roles in the paragraph and
> produce this annoying double-that construction?
It's perfectly good English as-is, and offhand I don't think using
"this" would be an improvement. It's been a long time since high
school English, but I think that "that" is actually more correct;
in context I'd take "this user" to mean your own operating-system
user ID, which was mentioned first. Note that the next sentence also
uses "that user" to refer to the same database user.
regards, tom lane
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