| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
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| To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)CommandPrompt(dot)com>, pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pgsql: Typo pointed out by Erwin Brandstetter. |
| Date: | 2007-12-11 20:56:51 |
| Message-ID: | 20071211205651.GL10710@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Devrim =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=DCND=DCZ?= <devrim(at)CommandPrompt(dot)com> writes:
> >> On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 15:20 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >>> I'm curious to know why you think "doubtless" is a typo.
> >
> >> It could be "doubtlessly" instead of "doubtless", right?
> >
> > Not according to the usage examples in my dictionaries.
> >
> > I don't object to the patch --- it removes a stylistic flourish that
> > doesn't really accomplish much --- but I do object to the claim that
> > the original was incorrect.
>
> My bad in that case. And JD's because I checked with him on IM and he
> agreed that it was actually wrong in the first place.
Hmm, there are plenty of things JD is excellent at, but correct english
is not one of them IMHO :-)
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