Re: Docs: Standardize "cannot" usage in SGML source

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Docs: Standardize "cannot" usage in SGML source
Date: 2025-12-24 20:12:19
Message-ID: aUxJI7k09XMl9dFP@momjian.us
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 06:00:20PM +0800, Chao Li wrote:
> Hi Hacker,
>
> While reviewing a patch, I happened to notice the PG docs prefer “cannot” than
> “can not”.
>
> Under doc/src/sgml, if we count:
> ```
> sgml % grep -r "cannot" . | wc -l
>      818
> ```
>
> “Cannot” has 818 occurrences, but “can not” has only 3:

Looks good, patch applied.

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