On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>> Anyway, we've probably beaten this horse to death.
>
> Just to be sure of that, I'll cite the Chicago Manual of Style (my
> preferred style guide), which seems to chart a course somewhere in
> the middle:
>
> http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas writes:
>> Sure, I'm not arguing with trying to be formal. The grammatical rule
>> that you're describing doesn't exist for me, though. I believe that
>> "that" can only introduce a restrictive clause, whereas "which" can
>> introduc
Robert Haas writes:
> Sure, I'm not arguing with trying to be formal. The grammatical rule
> that you're describing doesn't exist for me, though. I believe that
> "that" can only introduce a restrictive clause, whereas "which" can
> introduce either a descriptive or a restrictive clause.
Yeah,
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas writes:
>> Why do you keep insisting on changing case where I've written "which"
>> to instead say "that" in situations where AFAIK either is perfectly
>> correct? I find such changes at best neutral, and in some cases
>> worse.
>
> W
Robert Haas writes:
> Why do you keep insisting on changing case where I've written "which"
> to instead say "that" in situations where AFAIK either is perfectly
> correct? I find such changes at best neutral, and in some cases
> worse.
What I was taught in school was that "that" introduces a re
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 9:00 PM, Thomas Munro
> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>>> On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
Copy-editing for contrib/pg_visibility documentation.
Add omitted
On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 9:00 PM, Thomas Munro
wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Copy-editing for contrib/pg_visibility documentation.
>>>
>>> Add omitted names for some function parameters.
>>> Fix some minor grammat
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Copy-editing for contrib/pg_visibility documentation.
>>
>> Add omitted names for some function parameters.
>> Fix some minor grammatical issues.
>
> Why do you keep insisting on changing case
On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Copy-editing for contrib/pg_visibility documentation.
>
> Add omitted names for some function parameters.
> Fix some minor grammatical issues.
Why do you keep insisting on changing case where I've written "which"
to instead say "that" in situation
