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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Justin Pryzby <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Tomas Vondra <[email protected]>
Cc: Andres Freund <[email protected]>
Cc: Zhihong Yu <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: typos (and more)
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 19:50:02 -0500
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On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 06:04:02PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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.
Attached is an updated patch fixing more of the same.
--
Justin
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