X-Original-To: pgsql-docs-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A62C18B9E99 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 06:15:23 +0000 (GMT) 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 88959-03 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 06:15:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tigger.fuhr.org (tigger.fuhr.org [63.214.45.158]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36BA38B9EDE for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2005 06:15:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from winnie.fuhr.org (winnie.fuhr.org [10.1.0.1]) by tigger.fuhr.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j136FBQX010558 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:15:13 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from mfuhr@winnie.fuhr.org) Received: from winnie.fuhr.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winnie.fuhr.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j136FAsL046828; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:15:10 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from mfuhr@winnie.fuhr.org) Received: (from mfuhr@localhost) by winnie.fuhr.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j136FAW1046827; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:15:10 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from mfuhr) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:15:10 -0700 From: Michael Fuhr To: Hashem Masoud Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Typo in performance-tips.html Message-ID: <20050203061510.GC46692@winnie.fuhr.org> References: <20050201183344.9178.qmail@web30004.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20050201183344.9178.qmail@web30004.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.003 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200502/8 X-Sequence-Number: 2841 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" (þ) 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/