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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Cc: Robin Dupret <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Developers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix a tiny typo in the documentation
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 10:34:16 -0500
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"David G. Johnston" <[email protected]> writes:
> On Wednesday, January 22, 2025, Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 22 Jan 2025, at 11:23, Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 22 Jan 2025, at 09:27, Robin Dupret <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> -    special provision: you must write
>>>> +    special provision you must write:

>> Re-reading it I think both placements of ':' are grammatically correct (not
>> being a native speaker might trick me).

> The colon does belong after provision, not write.  If the colon is
> bothersome rewrite to avoid it altogether.  But the status quo works for me.

I agree: removing the colon from where it is is strictly worse.
There should be some kind of pause or separation there.
Conceivably we could do

-    special provision: you must write
+    special provision. You must write:

But like David, I don't feel a need to change anything here.  There
are many places in our docs where we flow into a <programlisting> or
similar block without punctuation, and most of them read just fine
to me.

			regards, tom lane

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