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

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Greg Nancarrow <gregn4422(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Smith <smithpb2250(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 06:22:24
Message-ID: YbGgoOSdWIsI8W95@paquier.xyz
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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.
--
Michael

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