Re: [Minor] Improve reading in "2. A Brief History of PostgreSQL" - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Matemática A3K
Subject Re: [Minor] Improve reading in "2. A Brief History of PostgreSQL"
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In response to Re: [Minor] Improve reading in "2. A Brief History of PostgreSQL"  (Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>)
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On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 5:18 AM Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> wrote:
On Thu, 2026-09-24 at 21:05 +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/history.html
>
> Where it says "A new program (psql) was provided for interactive SQL
> queries, which used GNU Readline. This largely superseded the old monitor
> program."
> a "for its purpose" should be added for improving reading:
> "A new program (psql) was provided for interactive SQL queries, which used
> GNU Readline. This largely superseded the old monitor program for its
> purpose."

Sorry, but I think your proposed change makes the sentence worse:

- "its": whose?

the old monitor program - which I assume from the text that it's what it was used before for interactive SQL queries
 

- you don't supersede "for" something

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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