Re: Missing word - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Álvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Missing word
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Msg-id 202505151752.gnensinzclls@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: Missing word  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On 2025-May-13, Tom Lane wrote:

> PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
> > In the paragraph:
> > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-partitioning.html#DDL-PARTITIONING-DECLARATIVE-MAINTENANCE,
> > sentence "Another option that is often preferable is to remove the partition
> > from the partitioned table but retain access to it as a table in its own
> > right." there is missing "not" word. Correct form of this sentence should
> > be: Another option that is often preferable is to not remove the partition
> > from the partitioned table but retain access to it as a table in its own
> > right.
> 
> AFAICS, it's correct as written.

Yeah, but maybe it would be clearer if the word "remove" were "detach".
I don't find the phrase "remove the partition from the partitioned
table" particulary suggestive of what's being described.

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