Re: Postgres 11 release notes

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 10:21:16AM +0900, Amit Langote wrote:
> On 2018/09/27 23:24, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > On 2018-Sep-27, Amit Langote wrote:
> >
> >> Sorry I couldn't reply sooner, but the following of your proposed text
> >> needs to be updated a bit:
> >>
> >> + <listitem>
> >> + <para>
> >> + Having a "default" partition for storing data that does not match a
> >> + partition key
> >> + </para>
> >> + </listitem>
> >>
> >> I think "does not match a partition key" is not accurate. Description of
> >> default partitions further below in the release notes says this:
> >>
> >> "The default partition can store rows that don't match any of the other
> >> defined partitions, and is searched accordingly."
> >>
> >> So, we could perhaps write it as:
> >>
> >> Having a "default" partition for storing data that does not match any of
> >> the remaining partitions
> >
> > Yeah, I agree that "a partition key" is not the right term to use there
> > (and that term is used in the press release text also). However I don't
> > think "remaining" is the right word there either, because it sounds as
> > if you're removing something.
> >
> > For the Spanish translation of the press release, we ended up using the
> > equivalent of "for the data that does not match any other partition".
>
> Yeah, "any other partition" is what the existing description uses too, so:
>
> Having a "default" partition for storing data that does not match any
> other partition

Uh, what text are you talkinga about? I see this text in the release
notes since May:

The default partition can store rows that don't match any of the
other defined partitions, and is searched accordingly.

The press release?

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