Re: Typo patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From CharSyam
Subject Re: Typo patch
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Msg-id CAMrLSE4HpqqhWsFr4bg0N5wvJdMxBmwbUJAQzbL9oCQXs9JxJQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Typo patch  (Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>)
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Thanks :) You make sense.

2015-05-21 1:49 GMT+09:00 Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>:
On 05/20/2015 07:29 PM, CharSyam wrote:
Hi,

I changed typos error. and attached patch for this.
Thanks you.

I only changed comments only

Thanks, committed. Except for this one:

--- src/backend/utils/sort/logtape.c
+++ src/backend/utils/sort/logtape.c
@@ -926,7 +926,7 @@ LogicalTapeBackspace(LogicalTapeSet *lts, int tapenum, size_t size)
 /*
  * Seek to an arbitrary position in a logical tape.
  *
- * *Only* a frozen-for-read tape can be seeked.
+ * *Only* a frozen-for-read tape can be sought.
  *
  * Return value is TRUE if seek successful, FALSE if there isn't that much
  * data in the tape (in which case there's no state change).

It's true that the past tense of "seek" is "sought", but it feels a bit weird to me in this context. This is a comment on a function called "<blah blah>seek", and it's not clear to me that it should conjugate like the normal "seek" verb.

- Heikki


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