From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Hashem Masoud <u_z_9@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Typo in performance-tips.html
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:15:10 -0700
Message-ID: <20050203061510.GC46692@winnie.fuhr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050201183344.9178.qmail@web30004.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <20050201183344.9178.qmail@web30004.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:33:43AM -0800, Hashem Masoud wrote:
> I believe this is a typo in the file
> performance-tips.html (perform.sgml):
>
> This plan proposes to extract the 50 interesting rows
> of tenk1 using ye same olde index scan, stash them
> into an in-memory hash table,
What's the typo? "Ye same olde"? That appears to be an attempt
at humor using Middle English. Here's a brief article about how
the "y" in "ye" is a misspelling of the "thorn" (รพ) character:
http://www.bartleby.com/68/15/6615.html
The Icelandic language still uses the thorn character, if I'm not
mistaken.
--
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
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