Re: Unhyphenation of crash-recovery - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Kyotaro Horiguchi
Subject Re: Unhyphenation of crash-recovery
Date
Msg-id 20220317.164535.100801208081230663.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
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In response to Re: Unhyphenation of crash-recovery  (Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>)
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At Thu, 17 Mar 2022 07:42:42 +0100, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> wrote in 
> On 16.03.22 02:25, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
> > Hello, this is a derived topic from [1], summarized as $SUBJECT.
> > This just removes useless hyphens from the words
> > "(crash|emergency)-recovery". We don't have such wordings for "archive
> > recovery" This patch fixes non-user-facing texts as well as
> > user-facing ones.
> 
> Most changes in this patch are not the correct direction.  The hyphens
> are used to group compound adjectives before nouns.  For example,
> 
>     simple crash-recovery cases
> 
> means
> 
>     simple (crash recovery) cases
> 
> rather than
> 
>     simple crash (recovery cases)
> 
> if it were without hyphens.

Really? The latter recognization doesn't seem to make sense.  I might
be too-trained so that I capture "(crash|archive|blah) recovery" as
implicit compound words.  But anyway there's no strong reason to be
aggressive to unhyphenate compound words.

"point-in-time-recovery" and "(during) emergency-recovery operations"
seem like better be unhyphnated, but now I'm not sure it is really so.

Thanks for the comments.

regards.

-- 
Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center



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