Received: from candle.pha.pa.us (candle.navpoint.com [162.33.245.46] (may be forged)) by mail.postgresql.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBBIRmm46172 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 13:27:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from pgman@candle.pha.pa.us) Received: (from pgman@localhost) by candle.pha.pa.us (8.9.0/8.9.0) id NAA13979; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 13:26:40 -0500 (EST) From: Bruce Momjian Message-Id: <200012111826.NAA13979@candle.pha.pa.us> Subject: Re: typo found. In-Reply-To: <7784.976556725@sss.pgh.pa.us> "from Tom Lane at Dec 11, 2000 12:45:25 pm" To: Tom Lane Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 13:26:40 -0500 (EST) CC: Peter Eisentraut , Thomas Lockhart , "He Weiping (Laser Henry)" , pgsql-docs@postgresql.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL77 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Archive-Number: 200012/25 X-Sequence-Number: 72 Changed to Negator. > Peter Eisentraut writes: > > The way it is now (before your patch/after backout) is correct. > > Agreed. The entry in question is for oprrsortop, which certainly > applies to the right-hand type not the left-hand. > > I do have a gripe with the entry just above that for "oprnegate": > it defines the oprnegate field as linking to the "inverse" operator. > This is not correct for the generally understood meaning of inverse. > I'd say just write "Negator of this operator, if any". If anyone isn't > sure about that, they can read about it in xoper.html ... but "inverse" > is likely to leave people believing the wrong thing. > > regards, tom lane > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026