Re: superlative missuse - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Angel Alvarez
Subject Re: superlative missuse
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Msg-id 200905132036.17222.clist@uah.es
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In response to Re: superlative missuse  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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El Miércoles, 13 de Mayo de 2009 Tom Lane escribió:
> Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> writes:
> > clist@uah.es (Angel Alvarez) writes:
> >> there is  not so 'more optimal' thing but a simple 'better' thing.
>
> > If I wanted to be pedantic about it, I'd say that the word "nearly" is
> > missing.
>
> > That is, it would be "strictly correct" if one instead said "more
> > nearly optimal."
>
> This sort of construction is longstanding practice in English anyway.
> The most famous example I can think of offhand is in the US
> Constitution: "... in order to form a more perfect union ..."

Wooa!!

So "Tom lane for President" still applies!! :-)

Thanks all of you.

>
>             regards, tom lane
>



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