Re: s/rewinded/rewound/?

2019-08-08 Thread Michael Paquier
On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 12:48:29PM +0300, Liudmila Mantrova wrote: > If we decide to fix this, we should probably revise and back-patch the whole > paragraph where it appears as it seems to mix up scanning target cluster > WALs and applying source cluster WALs. A small patch is attached for your >

Re: s/rewinded/rewound/?

2019-08-07 Thread Geoff Winkless
On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 at 16:59, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > He didn't > add a mailing list reference, but this is easy to find at > https://postgr.es/m/20160720180706.gf24...@momjian.us > I lean towards the view that he was using the literal program name as a > verb, rather than trying to decline a verb

Re: s/rewinded/rewound/?

2019-08-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On 2019-Aug-07, Tom Lane wrote: > Magnus Hagander writes: > > 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... > > He might've just been committing somebody else's words without having >

Re: s/rewinded/rewound/?

2019-08-07 Thread Tom Lane
Magnus Hagander writes: > On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 10:49 AM Thomas Munro wrote: >> The word "rewinded" appears in our manual and in a comment. That >> sounds strange to my ears. Isn't it a mistake? Certainly. > To me this sounds like a classic non-English-native-speaker-mistake. But > it

Re: s/rewinded/rewound/?

2019-08-07 Thread Chapman Flack
On 08/07/19 04:48, Thomas Munro wrote: > 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? It does seem counter, original, spare, strange. Regards, -Chap

Re: s/rewinded/rewound/?

2019-08-07 Thread Liudmila Mantrova
On 8/7/19 12:00 PM, Michael Paquier wrote: On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 10:53:45AM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: 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

Re: s/rewinded/rewound/?

2019-08-07 Thread Michael Paquier
On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 10:53:45AM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: > 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 >

Re: s/rewinded/rewound/?

2019-08-07 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 10:49 AM Thomas Munro 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.

s/rewinded/rewound/?

2019-08-07 Thread Thomas Munro
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