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From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Incorrect use of "an" and "a" in code comments and docs
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Msg-id 20180329192832.GG16165@momjian.us
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In response to Incorrect use of "an" and "a" in code comments and docs  (Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>)
Responses Re: Incorrect use of "an" and "a" in code comments and docs  (Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>)
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On Mon, Mar  5, 2018 at 01:58:54PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> While looking at something else, I have one one occurence of $subject.
> Looking more deeply at the code I have found 10 more of them, like:
> - sinval is a signal invalidation, so it seems to me that "a" is
> correct, not "an".
> - I bumped into "an" being used instead of "and" in the GIN code.
> - config/c-library.m4 also includes one.  If that code is from somewhere
> else, fixing this typo would not be appropriate perhaps?
> 
> Attached is a proposal of patch to fix all those things.

Attached patch applied.  It includes a suggested fix by Abhijit
Menon-Sen.

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