| From: | Vik Fearing <vik(dot)fearing(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: password_encryption, default and 'plain' support |
| Date: | 2017-05-06 10:44:40 |
| Message-ID: | 8e1fc5d8-ad80-b88a-262a-690292bb9141@2ndquadrant.com |
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On 05/05/2017 02:42 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> + This option is obsolete but still accepted for backwards
> + compatibility.
> Isn't that incorrect English?
No.
> It seems to me that this be non-plural,
> as "for backward compatibility".
"Backwards" is not plural, it's a regional variation of "backward" (or
vice versa depending on which region you come from). Both are correct.
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