Обсуждение: Fix typos

On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 08:24:17AM -0400, Sehrope Sarkuni wrote:
> Attached fixes some typos for "serialise" => "serialize" and "materialise"
> => "materialize".

These don't seem to be typos:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/materialise
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/serialise
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Michael

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 08:24:17AM -0400, Sehrope Sarkuni wrote:
>> Attached fixes some typos for "serialise" => "serialize" and "materialise"
>> => "materialize".

> These don't seem to be typos:
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/materialise
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/serialise

It's British vs. American spelling.  For the most part, Postgres
follows American spelling, but there's the odd Briticism here and
there.  I'm not sure whether it's worth trying to standardize.
I think the most recent opinion on this was Munro's:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+hUKGJz-pdMgWXroiwvN-aeG4-AjdWj3gWdQKOSa8g65spdVw@mail.gmail.com

            regards, tom lane

On 2019-Aug-01, Tom Lane wrote:

> It's British vs. American spelling.  For the most part, Postgres
> follows American spelling, but there's the odd Briticism here and
> there.  I'm not sure whether it's worth trying to standardize.
> I think the most recent opinion on this was Munro's:
> 
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+hUKGJz-pdMgWXroiwvN-aeG4-AjdWj3gWdQKOSa8g65spdVw@mail.gmail.com

I think slight variations don't really detract from the value of the
product, and consider the odd variation a reminder of the diversity of
the project.  I don't suggest that we purposefully introduce spelling
variations, or that we refrain from fixing ones that appear in code
we're changing, but I don't see the point in changing a line for the
sole reason of standardising the spelling of a word.

That said, I'm not a native English speaker.

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On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 11:01:59PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I think slight variations don't really detract from the value of the
> product, and consider the odd variation a reminder of the diversity of
> the project.  I don't suggest that we purposefully introduce spelling
> variations, or that we refrain from fixing ones that appear in code
> we're changing, but I don't see the point in changing a line for the
> sole reason of standardising the spelling of a word.

Agreed.  This always reminds me of ANALYZE vs. ANALYSE where we don't
actually document the latter :)

> That said, I'm not a native English speaker.

Neither am I.
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Michael