Hello. I started reading through the Glossary[^1] terms to learn from the definitions, and to double check them against what I'd written elsewhere. I found myself making edits. :)
I've put the edits together into a patch. My goal was to focus on wording simplifications that are smoother to read, without big changes. I realized I should check with others though, so this is a mid-point check-in. For now I went through terms from "A" through "I". Here's a recap of the changes: - Changed places like “to make” to use the verb directly, i.e. “make” - When describing options for a command, changed to “option of” instead of “option to” - “system- or user-supplied”, removed the dash after system. Or I’d suggest system-supplied or user-supplied, to hyphenate both. - Changed “will access” to “access” - Changed “helps to prevent” to “helps prevent” - Changed “volume of records has been written” to “volume of records were written” - “It is required that this user exist” changed to “This user is required to exist...” (I’d also suggest “This user must exist before”) as a simplification, but that’s a bigger difference from what’s there now. - Changed “operating-system” to remove the hyphen, which is how it’s written elsewhere in the Glossary. - Many examples of “an SQL”. I changed those to “a SQL...”. For example I changed “An SQL command which” to “A SQL command that”. I'm not an English major so maybe I'm missing something here. - I often thought “that” was easier to read than “which”, and there are several examples in the patch. For example “Space in data pages that…” replaced “Space in data pages which…” - Simplifications like: “There also exist two secondary forks” to “There are two secondary forks” I was able to build the documentation locally and preview the HTML version. If these types of changes are helpful, and can continue a consistent style through all the terms and provide a new (larger) v2 patch. Thanks for taking a look. Andrew Atkinson [^1]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/glossary.html
glossary_terms_grammar_edits_v1.patch
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