Re: Add missing period to HINT messages

On Thu, Apr 9, 2026 at 9:05 PM Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2026 at 1:34 PM Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> ...
> >
> > I am not sure if your scope includes contrib/, if yes, I am sure you will find some occurrences there.
> >
>
> Updated one more message found in contrib.
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> PSA v2.
>

+1 to the general idea here, although at the risk of looking at
patches before the morning coffee has settled in, ISTM you might have
missed some entries? And/or this patch isn't against HEAD? For
example, you seem to be catching the line here
https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blame/009ea1b08d7b8843435bd0f1137fa3df09aac79f/src/test/regress/expected/partition_split.out#L60,
but not the one on line 52, maybe because it looks like a comment (but
istm we should clean these all up. no?)

Also FWIW, it might seem a little weird not to clean up the grammar
issues too, but I think this is the right move, to update these
changes cleanly/separately and do those changes as a separate patch, I
can imagine that some of those will require more futzing, for example

> "To split DEFAULT partition one of the new partition must be DEFAULT."
> missing word? -- "To split the DEFAULT partition"
> should be plural? -- "one of the new partitions"
>

I guess there is a balance wrt terseness, and maybe needs a comma:

"To split DEFAULT partition, one new partition must be DEFAULT."
"To split the DEFAULT partition, one of the new partitions must be DEFAULT."
"To split a DEFAULT partition, one of the new partitions must be
created as DEFAULT."

Robert Treat
https://xzilla.net