Re: s/rewinded/rewound/?

On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 10:49 AM Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The word "rewinded" appears in our manual and in a comment. That
> sounds strange to my ears. Isn't it a mistake? Oxford lists the form
> as "poetic" and "rare", and then says it was used by one specific
> Victorian poet. Perhaps I'll send them a pull request: it's now G. M.
> Hopkins and PostgreSQL? Or maybe it's in common usage in another part
> of the world?
>

To me this sounds like a classic non-English-native-speaker-mistake. But
it seems at least the one in the docs come from Bruce, who definitely is...
So perhaps it's intentional to refer to "what pg_rewind does", and not
necessarily to the regular word for it?

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