On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:33:43AM -0800, Hashem Masoud wrote:
> I believe this is a typo in the file
> performance-tips.html (perform.sgml):
>
> This plan proposes to extract the 50 interesting rows
> of tenk1 using ye same olde index scan, stash them
> into an in-memory hash table,
What's the typo? "Ye same olde"? That appears to be an attempt
at humor using Middle English. Here's a brief article about how
the "y" in "ye" is a misspelling of the "thorn" (þ) character:
http://www.bartleby.com/68/15/6615.html
The Icelandic language still uses the thorn character, if I'm not
mistaken.
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Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
