Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-3.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E8BB1337BD8 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:15:31 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.243]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 17382-04 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:15:23 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com (mail-iw0-f174.google.com [209.85.214.174]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 862511337BA8 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:15:23 -0300 (ADT) Received: by iwn34 with SMTP id 34so998064iwn.19 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:15:23 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.148.133 with SMTP id r5mr884029icv.469.1301472923098; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:15:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.165.135 with HTTP; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:15:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4D92E502.9050804@2ndQuadrant.com> References: <4D92E502.9050804@2ndQuadrant.com> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:15:23 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: English Grammar question From: Dave Page To: Susanne Ebrecht Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-5 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201103/133 X-Sequence-Number: 6566 On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Susanne Ebrecht wrote: > Hello, > > during translation the history.sgml - I found the following sentences in > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/history.html > > "The design of the rule system at that time was described in The design o= f > the POSTGRES rules system. The rationale and architecture of the storage > manager were detailed in The design of the POSTGRES storage system " > > I am not sure if the grammar is correct here. > > My feeling says it should be: > > "is decribed" and "are detailed"=A0 instead of "was and were" > > I am pretty sure these books still exist. It seems fine to me. The tense refers to when it was written, not when the papers were available (or not). --=20 Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company