Re: Typo patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Typo patch
Date
Msg-id 24243.1432141520@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Typo patch  (Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>)
Responses Re: Typo patch  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> writes:
> Thanks, committed. Except for this one:

> - * *Only* a frozen-for-read tape can be seeked.
> + * *Only* a frozen-for-read tape can be sought.

> It's true that the past tense of "seek" is "sought", but it feels a bit 
> weird to me in this context. This is a comment on a function called 
> "<blah blah>seek", and it's not clear to me that it should conjugate 
> like the normal "seek" verb.

I agree that "sought" is not the word to use here, but the existing
wording isn't very good English either.  Perhaps "Seeking is only allowed
on frozen-for-read tapes"?
        regards, tom lane



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