From: | Angel Alvarez <clist(at)uah(dot)es> |
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To: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: superlative missuse |
Date: | 2009-05-13 18:36:17 |
Message-ID: | 200905132036.17222.clist@uah.es |
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El Miércoles, 13 de Mayo de 2009 Tom Lane escribió:
> Chris Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> writes:
> > clist(at)uah(dot)es (Angel Alvarez) writes:
> >> there is not so 'more optimal' thing but a simple 'better' thing.
>
> > If I wanted to be pedantic about it, I'd say that the word "nearly" is
> > missing.
>
> > That is, it would be "strictly correct" if one instead said "more
> > nearly optimal."
>
> This sort of construction is longstanding practice in English anyway.
> The most famous example I can think of offhand is in the US
> Constitution: "... in order to form a more perfect union ..."
Wooa!!
So "Tom lane for President" still applies!! :-)
Thanks all of you.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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