| From: | Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
| Cc: | David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Improving connection scalability: GetSnapshotData() |
| Date: | 2020-03-29 01:15:09 |
| Message-ID: | CA+hUKGJJcnJUkjNnqGKSM--LmNBbWzuKaMkMKVq9fyEAE6n1HQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 1:49 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> > 13. is -> are
> >
> > * accessed data is stored contiguously in memory in as few cache lines as
>
> Oh? 'data are stored' sounds wrong to me, somehow.
In computer contexts it seems pretty well established that we treat
"data" as an uncountable noun (like "air"), so I think "is" is right
here. In maths or science contexts it's usually treated as a plural
following Latin, which admittedly sounds cleverer, but it also has a
slightly different meaning, not bits and bytes but something more like
samples or (wince) datums.
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