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From Robert Haas
Subject Re: pgsql: Avoid using ambiguous word "positive" in error message.
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Responses Re: pgsql: Avoid using ambiguous word "positive" in error message.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 10:49 PM Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org> wrote:
> Avoid using ambiguous word "positive" in error message.

The new style seems good, but I don't really agree that "positive" and
"non-negative" are ambiguous. "positive" means >0 and "non-negative"
means >= 0, because 0 is neither positive nor negative.

This is just nitpicking, though. I think the change is an improvement.

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Robert Haas
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