Re: [Minor] Improve reading in "2. A Brief History of PostgreSQL"

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: matematica(dot)a3k(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [Minor] Improve reading in "2. A Brief History of PostgreSQL"
Date: 2026-09-25 08:18:47
Message-ID: 72a30854609e23a8065e153ed3ba836604b326c3.camel@cybertec.at
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On Thu, 2026-09-24 at 21:05 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/history.html
>
> Where it says "A new program (psql) was provided for interactive SQL
> queries, which used GNU Readline. This largely superseded the old monitor
> program."
> a "for its purpose" should be added for improving reading:
> "A new program (psql) was provided for interactive SQL queries, which used
> GNU Readline. This largely superseded the old monitor program for its
> purpose."

Sorry, but I think your proposed change makes the sentence worse:

- "its": whose?

- you don't supersede "for" something

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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