From: Kevin Grittner Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 16:05:30 +0000 (-0500) Subject: doc: Various typo/grammar fixes X-Git-Tag: REL9_1_15~111 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=64277753b48009d72a915b798f69634653868720;p=postgresql doc: Various typo/grammar fixes Errors detected using Topy (https://github.com/intgr/topy), all changes verified by hand and some manual tweaks added. Marti Raudsepp Individual changes backpatched, where applicable, as far as 9.0. --- diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml index 26a33e84b0..f69c26dd02 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml @@ -2284,7 +2284,7 @@ January 8 04:05:06 1999 PST Time zones, and time-zone conventions, are influenced by political decisions, not just earth geometry. Time zones around the - world became somewhat standardized during the 1900's, + world became somewhat standardized during the 1900s, but continue to be prone to arbitrary changes, particularly with respect to daylight-savings rules. PostgreSQL uses the widely-used diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/mvcc.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/mvcc.sgml index 37237f037f..4a5ab4f996 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/mvcc.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/mvcc.sgml @@ -1224,7 +1224,7 @@ UPDATE accounts SET balance = balance - 100.00 WHERE acctnum = 22222; correctly. Advisory locks can be useful for locking strategies that are an awkward fit for the MVCC model. For example, a common use of advisory locks is to emulate pessimistic - locking strategies typical of so called flat file data + locking strategies typical of so-called flat file data management systems. While a flag stored in a table could be used for the same purpose, advisory locks are faster, avoid table bloat, and are automatically diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/pgbench.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/pgbench.sgml index e7b78605ec..7bbb2c2f9b 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/pgbench.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/pgbench.sgml @@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ END; (useful when multiple scripts were specified with -f), and time_epoch/time_us are a UNIX epoch format timestamp and an offset - in microseconds (suitable for creating a ISO 8601 + in microseconds (suitable for creating an ISO 8601 timestamp with fractional seconds) showing when the transaction completed. diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/pgcrypto.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/pgcrypto.sgml index 6b78f2c1c6..c0d14521a4 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/pgcrypto.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/pgcrypto.sgml @@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ pgp_pub_encrypt_bytea(data bytea, key bytea [, options text ]) returns bytea Encrypt data with a public PGP key key. - Giving this function a secret key will produce a error. + Giving this function a secret key will produce an error. The options parameter can contain option settings, diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/pltcl.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/pltcl.sgml index 9f252e97ca..47c53fc7d6 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/pltcl.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/pltcl.sgml @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Sometimes it is desirable to write Tcl functions that are not restricted to safe Tcl. For example, one might want a Tcl function that sends email. To handle these cases, there is a variant of PL/Tcl called PL/TclU - (for untrusted Tcl). This is the exact same language except that a full + (for untrusted Tcl). This is exactly the same language except that a full Tcl interpreter is used. If PL/TclU is used, it must be installed as an untrusted procedural language so that only database superusers can create functions in it. The writer of a PL/TclU diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/queries.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/queries.sgml index e0a6a22c4e..38cb456a07 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/queries.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/queries.sgml @@ -1939,7 +1939,7 @@ DELETE FROM parts statements in WITH, the order in which the specified updates actually happen is unpredictable. All the statements are executed with the same snapshot (see ), so they - cannot see each others' effects on the target tables. This + cannot see one another's effects on the target tables. This alleviates the effects of the unpredictability of the actual order of row updates, and means that RETURNING data is the only way to communicate changes between different WITH sub-statements and diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_tsdictionary.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_tsdictionary.sgml index 7c12037041..d1f81b2b38 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_tsdictionary.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_tsdictionary.sgml @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY my_dict ( StopWords = newrussian ); - The following example command changes the language option to dutch, + The following example command changes the language option to dutch, and removes the stopword option entirely. diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/comment.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/comment.sgml index 1c8b37c832..f1196f9585 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/comment.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/comment.sgml @@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ COMMENT ON SERVER myserver IS 'my foreign server'; COMMENT ON TABLE my_schema.my_table IS 'Employee Information'; COMMENT ON TABLESPACE my_tablespace IS 'Tablespace for indexes'; COMMENT ON TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION my_config IS 'Special word filtering'; -COMMENT ON TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY swedish IS 'Snowball stemmer for swedish language'; +COMMENT ON TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY swedish IS 'Snowball stemmer for Swedish language'; COMMENT ON TEXT SEARCH PARSER my_parser IS 'Splits text into words'; COMMENT ON TEXT SEARCH TEMPLATE snowball IS 'Snowball stemmer'; COMMENT ON TRIGGER my_trigger ON my_table IS 'Used for RI'; diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-7.4.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-7.4.sgml index 2ad8b5fd42..5a4c52d4c2 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-7.4.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-7.4.sgml @@ -3797,7 +3797,7 @@ DROP SCHEMA information_schema CASCADE; This enabled GRANT to give other users the - ability to grant privileges on a object. + ability to grant privileges on an object. diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml index d1881fdf94..7f6a74bac9 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml @@ -5883,7 +5883,7 @@ The new syntax is CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY. The default behavior is - still to block table modification while a index is being + still to block table modification while an index is being created. diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-old.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-old.sgml index 1c42f1ba7d..ec8e43f6ea 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-old.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-old.sgml @@ -4849,7 +4849,7 @@ New DECLARE and FETCH feature(Thomas) libpq's internal structures now not exported(Tom) Allow up to 8 key indexes(Bruce) Remove ARCHIVE key word, that is no longer used(Thomas) -pg_dump -n flag to suppress quotes around indentifiers +pg_dump -n flag to suppress quotes around identifiers disable system columns for views(Jan) new INET and CIDR types for network addresses(TomH, Paul) no more double quotes in psql output @@ -5250,7 +5250,7 @@ Support SQL92 syntax for type coercion of literal strings (e.g. "DATETIME 'now'")(Thomas) Add conversions for int2, int4, and OID types to and from text(Thomas) Use shared lock when building indexes(Vadim) -Free memory allocated for an user query inside transaction block after +Free memory allocated for a user query inside transaction block after this query is done, was turned off in <= 6.2.1(Vadim) New SQL statement CREATE PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE(Jan) New PostgreSQL Procedural Language (PL) backend interface(Jan) @@ -6514,7 +6514,7 @@ Incompatible changes: New tools: * pgperl - a Perl (4.036) interface to Postgres95 * pg_dump - a utility for dumping out a postgres database into a - script file containing query commands. The script files are in a ASCII + script file containing query commands. The script files are in an ASCII format and can be used to reconstruct the database, even on other machines and other architectures. (Also good for converting a Postgres 4.2 database to Postgres95 database.) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet.dsl b/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet.dsl index 232fa58e51..ba9681aed2 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet.dsl +++ b/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet.dsl @@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ ;; By default, the part and reference title pages get wrong page ;; numbers: The first title page gets roman numerals carried over from -;; preface/toc -- we want arabic numerals. We also need to make sure +;; preface/toc -- we want Arabic numerals. We also need to make sure ;; that page-number-restart is set of #f explicitly, because otherwise ;; it will carry over from the previous component, which is not good. ;; diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/textsearch.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/textsearch.sgml index a92ed0ea4e..53e2fe2754 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/textsearch.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/textsearch.sgml @@ -2423,7 +2423,7 @@ more sample word(s) : more indexed word(s) where the colon (:) symbol acts as a delimiter between a - a phrase and its replacement. + phrase and its replacement. diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/xml2.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/xml2.sgml index adc923bacc..28213a4430 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/xml2.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/xml2.sgml @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ AS t(article_id integer, author text, page_count integer, title text); The calling SELECT statement doesn't necessarily have be - be just SELECT * — it can reference the output + just SELECT * — it can reference the output columns by name or join them to other tables. The function produces a virtual table with which you can perform any operation you wish (e.g. aggregation, joining, sorting etc). So we could also have: diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/xoper.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/xoper.sgml index 1e6efd58e4..8568e21216 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/xoper.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/xoper.sgml @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ SELECT (a + b) AS c FROM test_complex; Unlike commutators, a pair of unary operators could validly be marked - as each others' negators; that would mean (A x) equals NOT (B x) + as each other's negators; that would mean (A x) equals NOT (B x) for all x, or the equivalent for right unary operators.