On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 10:49 AM Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, > > The word "rewinded" appears in our manual and in a comment. That > sounds strange to my ears. Isn't it a mistake? Oxford lists the form > as "poetic" and "rare", and then says it was used by one specific > Victorian poet. Perhaps I'll send them a pull request: it's now G. M. > Hopkins and PostgreSQL? Or maybe it's in common usage in another part > of the world? > To me this sounds like a classic non-English-native-speaker-mistake. But it seems at least the one in the docs come from Bruce, who definitely is... So perhaps it's intentional to refer to "what pg_rewind does", and not necessarily to the regular word for it? -- Magnus Hagander Me: https://www.hagander.net/ <http://www.hagander.net/> Work: https://www.redpill-linpro.com/ <http://www.redpill-linpro.com/>
