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From: Jim Seymour <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Do we need more emphasis on backup?
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 23:32:18 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Doug McNaught <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> [email protected] (Jim Seymour) writes:
> 
> > Oh, if you're accepting punctuation nits ;), in most cases, the comma
> > should come after "but," not before it.  So your sentence should read
> > "PostgreSQL will run on almost any hardware but, if you are..."
> 
> Wrong.  :)
> 
> You are sentenced to go read Strunk and White again.

I stand corrected.  I always used to put the comma before "but," but
changed after reading somewhere, or thinking I had, that was incorrect
for certain sentence structures.

Neither of my style guides supports what I said earlier, so I cannot
imagine whence I got that idea.

Jim

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