Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 18:04:02 -0300
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org,
	Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>,
	Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>
Subject: Re: typos (and more)
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On 2021-Sep-27, Michael Paquier wrote:

> The use
> of "statistic", "statistics" and "statistics object" in 0008 and 0012
> is indeed inconsistent.  The latter term is the most used, but it
> sounds a bit weird to me even if it refers to the DDL object
> manipulated.  Simply using "statistics" would be tempting.

Initially we just used "statistic" as a noun, which IIRC was already
grammatically wrong (but I didn't know that and I think Tomas didn't
either); later at some point when discussing how to use that noun in
plural we realized this and argued that merely using "statistics" was
even more wrong.  It was then that we started using the term "statistics
object" with plural "statistics objects".  Going back to using just
"statistics" is unlikely to have become correct; I think Justin's
patches 0008 and 0012 are correct.

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