Re: superlative missuse - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Chris Browne
Subject Re: superlative missuse
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Msg-id 87bppx9fqq.fsf@dba2.int.libertyrms.com
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In response to superlative missuse  (Angel Alvarez <clist@uah.es>)
Responses Re: superlative missuse  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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clist@uah.es (Angel Alvarez) writes:
> more optimal plan...
> morreoptimal configuration...
>
> we suffer a 'more optimal' superlative missuse
>
> there is  not so 'more optimal' thing but a simple 'better' thing.
>
> im not native english speaker but i think it still applies.

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."

I don't imagine people get too terribly confused by the lack of the
word "nearly," so I nearly don't care :-).
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