Re: "an SQL" vs. "a SQL"

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin(at)geoff(dot)dj>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: "an SQL" vs. "a SQL"
Date: 2021-06-13 11:13:07
Message-ID: YMXoQ+Z0Iefg8Kxu@paquier.xyz
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On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 07:36:54AM +0100, Geoff Winkless wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2021, 15:35 Alvaro Herrera, <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
>> src/backend/libpq/auth.c:847: * has. If it's an MD5 hash, we must do
>> MD5 authentication, and if it's a
>> src/backend/libpq/auth.c:848: * SCRAM secret, we must do SCRAM
>> authentication.
>
> Not sure whether you were just listing examples and you weren't suggesting
> this should be changed, but surely "SCRAM" is pronounced "scram" and is
> thus "a SCRAM"?

RFC 5802 uses "a SCRAM something" commonly, but "a SCRAM" alone does
not make sense:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5802

The sentences quoted above look fine to me.
--
Michael

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