Re: [Minor] Duplicated word in "Creating a Database" tutorial

On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 11:47 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> "David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Friday, September 25, 2026, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>
> wrote:
> >> It seems like a correct sentence to me, removing as per your suggestion
> >> would
> >> AFAICT make it grammatically incorrect.
>
> > Probably, but wouldn’t saying “this user” instead of “that user” be
> equally
> > correct without making the word “that” serve two roles in the paragraph
> and
> > produce this annoying double-that construction?
>
> It's perfectly good English as-is, and offhand I don't think using
> "this" would be an improvement. It's been a long time since high
> school English, but I think that "that" is actually more correct;
> in context I'd take "this user" to mean your own operating-system
> user ID, which was mentioned first. Note that the next sentence also
> uses "that user" to refer to the same database user.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

After reading the discussion, it now makes sense the sentence, thanks for
the clarification