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To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: nawaz@fast.au.fujitsu.com
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: typo
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:34:43 +0100
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On 2018-11-26 15:14, Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes:
>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 08:17:06AM +0100, Vik Fearing wrote:
>>> On 26/11/2018 08:03, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>>> Are you sure that's right? To me the original wording of that
>>>> sentence
>>>> seems to convey the message properly, and the update done does not?
>
>>> Yeah, I just found this on the committers list and I disagree with
>>> the
>>> change as well.
>
>> [... checking around ...]
>> Hm. I have read the sentence and the surroundings a couple of times
>> before doing anything, and using an adverb looked clearer than the
>> adjective. Is an adjective more appropriate than an adverb here
>> because
>> it insists more on the fact that each row is involved? Just trying to
>> grab the difference.
>
> I think that text is mine originally, and it was not a typo. The
> meaning
> of "table rows proper", in this case, is basically "table rows
> themelves".
Maybe that is not a bad alternative
"table rows themselves"
Even if that sounds slightly less idiomatic than the original, I think
it'd be less of a stumbling block for non-native readers.
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