From: | jseymour(at)linxnet(dot)com (Jim Seymour) |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Do we need more emphasis on backup? |
Date: | 2004-07-12 03:32:18 |
Message-ID: | 20040712033218.EC21B430E@jimsun.linxnet.com |
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Doug McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org> wrote:
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> jseymour(at)linxnet(dot)com (Jim Seymour) writes:
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> > Oh, if you're accepting punctuation nits ;), in most cases, the comma
> > should come after "but," not before it. So your sentence should read
> > "PostgreSQL will run on almost any hardware but, if you are..."
>
> Wrong. :)
>
> You are sentenced to go read Strunk and White again.
I stand corrected. I always used to put the comma before "but," but
changed after reading somewhere, or thinking I had, that was incorrect
for certain sentence structures.
Neither of my style guides supports what I said earlier, so I cannot
imagine whence I got that idea.
Jim
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