From: | Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> |
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To: | Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl> |
Cc: | pgsql-www(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: typos in 'website 'About'-page |
Date: | 2019-05-24 06:58:11 |
Message-ID: | 35E6236E-79BB-4F4F-8214-99424FF7D4C3@yesql.se |
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> On 23 May 2019, at 15:18, Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl> wrote:
>
> In
> https://www.postgresql.org/about/
>
> 'Below is an inexhaustive of various features' should be
> 'Below is an inexhaustive list of various features’
>
>
> And the following sentence seems altogether incorrect:
>
> 'As of the version 11 release in October 2018, PostgreSQL conforms to at least 160 of the 179 mandatory features for SQL:2011 Core conformance, where as of this writing, no relational database meets full conformance with this standard.'
>
> I think the problem-phrase is 'where as of this writing' (fixing the spelling to 'whereas' doesn't really help) so I suggest to break the above into two sentences:
>
> 'As of the version 11 release in October 2018, PostgreSQL conforms to at least 160 of the 179 mandatory features for SQL:2011 Core conformance. As of this writing, no relational database meets full conformance with this standard.'
>
> I hope native speakers will correct me if I'm wrong.
While not a native speaker, I do agree that your proposed wording is easier to
read so I went ahead and applied that together with the other fix. Thanks for
reporting!
cheers ./daniel
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