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To: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Cc: Jaime Casanova <[email protected]>
Cc: Gavin Flower <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: postgres-9.1beta3 typo: recommendable --> recommended
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:36:43 -0400
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On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 01:59:43PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Jaime Casanova <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Gavin Flower
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> /postgres-9.1/share/doc/html/manage-ag-overview.html
> >> In the folowing partagrasoh 'recommendable' should be 'recommended'.
> >>
> >> [...]
> >> Databases are physically separated and access
> >> control is managed at the connection level. If one PostgreSQL server
> >> instance is to house projects or users that should be separate and for the
> >> most part unaware of each other, it is therefore recommendable to put them
> >> into separate databases. If the projects or users are interrelated and
> >> should be able to use each other's resources, they should be put in the same
> >> database but possibly into separate schemas.
> >> [...]
> >>
> >
> > maybe it's because i'm not a natural english speaker but this sounds
> > like we are recommended to put the users in another database. probably
> > it is refering to the user's resources... maybe we can make it more
> > explicit?
>
> The only thing that seems weird about it to me is that recommendable
> is a word that is almost never used by native English speakers. Or at
> least not the native English speakers I know.
I did some research on this and this was the best description I could
find was:
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=693689
If you want to suggest others use it, it is recommended. If you want to
suggest others tell their friends and aquaintances to use it, it would
be recommendable.
I think all doc mentions of 'recommendable' should be changed to
'recommended'.
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Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> http://momjian.us
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