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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: troy@frericks.us
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Manua correction
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 10:23:55 -0400
Message-ID: <20210719142355.GA12687@momjian.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3701102.1626405158@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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	<20210715213623.GC14027@momjian.us>
	<3701102.1626405158@sss.pgh.pa.us>

On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 11:12:38PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Interesting.  I see several cases where our docs are not clear we
> > process only the first match:
> 
> At least two of these changes are flat out wrong.  The places
> that explicitly mention "substring(s)" are not doing so because
> we failed to think about what that meant.

I really don't understand the use of "(s)" except in place where we are
really trying to point out the idea of one or multiple, and I don't see
that being significant in these cases --- can you clarify?

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  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        https://momjian.us
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