Re: "an SQL" vs. "a SQL" - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: "an SQL" vs. "a SQL"
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Msg-id YMXoQ+Z0Iefg8Kxu@paquier.xyz
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In response to Re: "an SQL" vs. "a SQL"  (Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin@geoff.dj>)
Responses Re: "an SQL" vs. "a SQL"
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On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 07:36:54AM +0100, Geoff Winkless wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2021, 15:35 Alvaro Herrera, <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
>> src/backend/libpq/auth.c:847:    * has.  If it's an MD5 hash, we must do
>> MD5 authentication, and if it's a
>> src/backend/libpq/auth.c:848:    * SCRAM secret, we must do SCRAM
>> authentication.
>
> Not sure whether you were just listing examples and you weren't suggesting
> this should be changed, but surely "SCRAM" is pronounced "scram" and is
> thus "a SCRAM"?

RFC 5802 uses "a SCRAM something" commonly, but "a SCRAM" alone does
not make sense:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5802

The sentences quoted above look fine to me.
--
Michael

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