From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Nikolay Shaplov <dhyan@nataraj.su>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, Nikita Glukhov <n.gluhov@postgrespro.ru>
Cc: PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][PROPOSAL] Add enum releation option type
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 12:49:32 -0300
Message-ID: <20180307154932.bry7bakpr5thsswy@alvherre.pgsql> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12291633.PFnvXaAOpE@x200m>
Nikolay Shaplov wrote:
> Actually that's me who have lost it.
Yeah, I realized today when I saw your reply to Nikita. I didn't
realize it was him submitting a new version of the patch.
> The code with oxford comma would be a
> bit more complicated. We should put such coma when we have 3+ items and do not
> put it when we have 2.
>
> Does it worth it?
>
> As I've read oxford using of comma is not mandatory and used to avoid
> ambiguity.
> "XXX, YYY and ZZZ" can be read as "XXX, YYY, ZZZ" or as "XXX, (YYY and ZZZ)".
> oxford comma is used to make sure that YYY and ZZZ are separate items of the
> list, not an expression inside one item.
>
> But here we hardly have such ambiguity.
Gracious goodness -- the stuff these Brits come up with!
> So I'll ask again, do you really think it worth it?
I'm not qualified to answer this question.
--
Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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