On 2025-02-20 Th 4:29 AM, Jeff Davis wrote:
Transfer statistics during pg_upgrade.


Small nit.

I notice this commit has introduced a couple of dubious uses of "mututally exclusive":

doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml:        This option is mutually exclusive to <option>--data-only</option> doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml-        and <option>--statistics-only</option>.
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doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_restore.sgml:        This option is mutually exclusive of <option>--data-only</option> doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_restore.sgml-        and <option>--statistics-only</option>.


I don't think this is idiomatic usage, and it's possibly not correct usage. At best it is jarring. One does not normally follow "mutually exclusive" with a preposition. I would replace the these with something like "This option cannot be used with ...". If you want to use the phrase, it should be something like "This option and ... are mutually exclusive."


cheers


andrew

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