Re: [doc] fix a potential grammer mistake

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От Erikjan Rijkers
Тема Re: [doc] fix a potential grammer mistake
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Msg-id 78b49522-8a13-d90b-e2ce-be29d43cbd73@xs4all.nl
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Ответ на [doc] fix a potential grammer mistake  (Junwang Zhao <zhjwpku@gmail.com>)
Ответы Re: [doc] fix a potential grammer mistake  (Junwang Zhao <zhjwpku@gmail.com>)
Re: [doc] fix a potential grammer mistake  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Op 03-08-2022 om 10:10 schreef Junwang Zhao:
> I think in the following sentence, were should be replaced with have,
> what do you think?
> 
> ```
>                          /*
> -                        * We were just issued a SAVEPOINT inside a
> transaction block.
> +                        * We have just issued a SAVEPOINT inside a
> transaction block.
>                           * Start a subtransaction.  (DefineSavepoint already did
>                           * PushTransaction, so as to have someplace to
> put the SUBBEGIN
>                           * state.)
> ```

I don't think these  "were"s  are wrong but arguably changing them to 
"have" helps non-native speakers (like myself), as it doesn't change the 
meaning significantly as far as I can see.

'we were issued' does reflect the perspective of the receiving code a 
bit better.


Erik




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