X-Original-To: pgsql-general-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 004AFD1B29D for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 00:32:21 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 93927-05 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 03:32:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from jimsun.linxnet.com (jimsun.linxnet.com [64.32.196.134]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E20CD1B175 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 00:32:13 -0300 (ADT) Received: by jimsun.linxnet.com (Postfix, from userid 332) id EC21B430E; Sun, 11 Jul 2004 23:32:18 -0400 (EDT) To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Do we need more emphasis on backup? X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Reply-To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org In-Reply-To: <87d632m3ny.fsf@asmodeus.mcnaught.org> Message-Id: <20040712033218.EC21B430E@jimsun.linxnet.com> Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 23:32:18 -0400 (EDT) From: jseymour@linxnet.com (Jim Seymour) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200407/392 X-Sequence-Number: 62991 Doug McNaught wrote: > > jseymour@linxnet.com (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