Re: Comment typo in namespace.c - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Amit Langote
Subject Re: Comment typo in namespace.c
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Msg-id CA+HiwqHeCRcq2XCVQ=W1huu250VGqvG0qMQZ_7sYDe=eecXNtg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Comment typo in namespace.c  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Comment typo in namespace.c  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 11:51 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp> writes:
>> Attached fixes a typo: s/non-exstant/non-existant.
>> Alternatively, it could be spelled as 'existent' but the patch doesn't.
>
> "non-existant" is flat wrong, so if we're going to fix typos, let's
> fix them to actually be English.

So, non-existent? non-extant? I seems to me like an 's' accidentally
sneaked in when the author of the comment tried to write the latter
spelling. But the former sounds more familiar (at least to me).

Thanks,
Amit



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