Re: Fix typos - "an" instead of "a"

From: Peter Smith <smithpb2250(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Nancarrow <gregn4422(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Fix typos - "an" instead of "a"
Date: 2021-12-09 08:05:18
Message-ID: CAHut+Pt-L_+oYFQfuwS2W=92jY-E-4F2-rTR7dYy6yQgnDo82w@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 5:22 PM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 05:47:39PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> > Yeah, I was treating the leading dash as being silent...the syntax dash(es)
> > for single and multi-character arguments seems unimportant to read aloud in
> > the general sense. If one does read them then yes, "a" is correct.
> > Lacking any documented preference I would then just go with what is
> > prevalent in existing usage.
>
> Interesting, I would have thought that the dash should be silent.
> Anyway, I missed that as this comes from ./configure we don't need to
> change anything as this file is generated by autoconf. I have applied
> the rest.

Thanks for pushing.

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Kind Regards,
Peter Smith.
Fujitsu Australia

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