| From: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andreas Seltenreich <seltenreich(at)gmx(dot)de> |
| Cc: | pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [patch] Typo in ECPG Docs |
| Date: | 2005-05-20 12:51:16 |
| Message-ID: | 428DDD44.703@samurai.com |
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Andreas Seltenreich wrote:
> I just stumbled across a spurious indefinite article in the ECPG docs.
> See the attached patch.
Patch applied to HEAD and REL8_0_STABLE. Thanks for the patch.
> Speaking of indefinite articles, there seems to be some inconsistency
> in using "a SQL ..." and "an SQL ..." throughout the docs. This could
> probably be easily fixed using a script, but I'm not sure if I'm
> missing some grammatical details here, since English isn't my native
> language.
Good point, it would be good to make this consistent. I would guess "an
SQL ..." is the correct variant, but I don't have an authoritative
reference. AFAIK there is no grammatical difference, anyway.
-Neil
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