Re: BUG #13589: content error

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, barnettluisa(at)gmail(dot)com, PostgreSQL Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #13589: content error
Date: 2015-09-22 03:02:27
Message-ID: 5600C4C3.2050503@gmx.net
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On 9/15/15 8:14 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 8/26/15 3:55 AM, Thomas Munro wrote:
> (Reviewing this for the commit fest ...), I welcome this discussion and
> am surprised that you have found so many issues. But I'm not in favor
> of this particular patch. I think most people in the discussion were
> not in favor of "he or she", and I feel in most of the cases where you
> dropped the pronoun in favor of just "the", it loses clarity.
>
> I would be mildly in favor of singular they, but it needs to be woven in
> carefully.

I have committed something based on your work and other suggestions.

I did not find any similar issues in message strings.

There are a few issues in code comments, but I did not feel urged to
clean them all up at this point.

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