On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 1:26 AM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 03:51:54PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> > I quickly reread that thread and I don't see that there's any firm
> > consensus there in favor of "read %d of %zu" over "read only %d of %zu
> > bytes". Now, if most people prefer the former, so be it, but I don't
> > think that's clear from that thread.
>
> The argument of consistency falls in favor of the former on HEAD:
> $ git grep "could not read" | grep "read %d of %zu" | wc -l
> 59
> $ git grep "could not read" | grep "read only %d of %zu" | wc -l
> 0
True. I didn't realize that 'read %d of %zu' was so widely used.
Your grep misses one instance of 'read only %d of %d bytes' because
you grepped for %zu specifically, but that doesn't really change the
overall picture.
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