| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Fujii Masao <fujii(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pgsql: Avoid using ambiguous word "positive" in error message. |
| Date: | 2021-08-30 14:19:55 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoYb=v5A0nK04ZZ4ejDPiphHAbKSqBZf+LUqO+_+qfnZvQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 10:16 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > The new style seems good, but I don't really agree that "positive" and
> > "non-negative" are ambiguous. "positive" means >0 and "non-negative"
> > means >= 0, because 0 is neither positive nor negative.
>
> Well, the point is precisely that not everyone makes that distinction.
> I agree that everyone will read "non-negative" as ">= 0"; but there's
> a fair percentage of the population that uses "positive" the same way.
The mathematician in me recoils.
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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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