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From: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pawel.szymczyk90@gmail.com
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Missing word
Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 13:52:13 -0400
Message-ID: <202505151752.gnensinzclls@alvherre.pgsql> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3899.1747145998@sss.pgh.pa.us>

On 2025-May-13, Tom Lane wrote:

> PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
> > In the paragraph:
> > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-partitioning.html#DDL-PARTITIONING-DECLARATIVE-MAINTENAN...,
> > sentence "Another option that is often preferable is to remove the partition
> > from the partitioned table but retain access to it as a table in its own
> > right." there is missing "not" word. Correct form of this sentence should
> > be: Another option that is often preferable is to not remove the partition
> > from the partitioned table but retain access to it as a table in its own
> > right.
> 
> AFAICS, it's correct as written.

Yeah, but maybe it would be clearer if the word "remove" were "detach".
I don't find the phrase "remove the partition from the partitioned
table" particulary suggestive of what's being described.

-- 
Álvaro Herrera        Breisgau, Deutschland  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
"Para tener más hay que desear menos"

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