On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 2:20 PM, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 01:06:39PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
>> > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 07:30:13PM +0000, Nathan Wagner wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 08:17:25AM +1300, Gavin Flower wrote:
>> >> What, it's a "fortnight", not a "quinzaine".
>> >>
>> >> You have no idea how hard it was to resist updating the patch...
>>
>> > Well, if you won't do it, I will.
>>
>> Please tell me this is a joke.
>
> Yes, it's a joke.
>
>> (FWIW, I don't have a problem with "fortnight", but I draw the line
>> at units that are not used in English.)
>
> It's used in English, but not in this context.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinzaine
>
> As to localization, I think we need to consider carefully whether
> PostgreSQL is to be a US-only RDBMS with a few concessions to usage
> elsewhere, or one usable by all the world's peoples
That baggage comes with the SQL Standard. It's fun to think about a
functional equivalent of SQL that doesn't attempt to have statements
be grammatically correct English sentences but due to various human
pressures that isn't how things worked out. Since I'm daydreaming,
let's have this hypothetical language implement relational division.
By the way, I fell for the joke. Note, we do implement 'allballs' so
I'll take a pass.
merlin
