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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Phrasing to consider (non-technical)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:21:22 -0500
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 04:56:40PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 02:50:22PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> > 
> > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/static/datatype-datetime.html
> > Description:
> > 
> > On the page for Data Types - DateTime, there is this part of a sentence:
> > 
> > "....so the same time zone names are also recognized by much other
> > software."
> > 
> > The phrase of "much other software" is what caught me.  An optional
> > replacement would be: "many other software systems." or "multiple software
> > packages."
> > 
> > "much" has a connotation that doesn't fit here as well as "many" or
> > "multiple" would.
> > 
> > Thanks for the documentation.  It has been very helpful in clarifying some
> > things.
> 
> I just went with simpler text, patch attached and backpatched.

Ah, removed one too many words.  The new text is now:

         names are also recognized by other software.

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