minor doc / usage fixes

Neil Conway writes:

This patch fixes an error in the usage message for 'clusterdb', and
makes a few editorial changes to the documentation.

Why do you add periods to the end of phrases that are not sentences?

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net

On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 16:10, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

Why do you add periods to the end of phrases that are not sentences?

Because my understanding is that the phrase "Connect as the given user"
is an imperative sentence. I won't pretend to be an expert in grammar
though.

If you'd like to argue that including a period is incorrect, that's fair
enough -- but please make that kind of policy consistent: other
sentences of the same form in that document include a period ("Include
large objects in dump.", "Dump data for table only.", etc.)

Cheers,

Neil
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Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> || PGP Key ID: DB3C29FC

Neil Conway writes:

If you'd like to argue that including a period is incorrect, that's fair
enough -- but please make that kind of policy consistent: other
sentences of the same form in that document include a period ("Include
large objects in dump.", "Dump data for table only.", etc.)

I'm not particularly attached to either format. I just vaguely recall
that I made a conscious effort to keep this distinction when I wrote the
text in question, and now I was wondering why someone else made a
conscious effort to do it differently.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net

Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:

http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches

I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.

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Neil Conway wrote:

This patch fixes an error in the usage message for 'clusterdb', and
makes a few editorial changes to the documentation.

Cheers,

Neil
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Patch applied. Thanks.

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Neil Conway wrote:

This patch fixes an error in the usage message for 'clusterdb', and
makes a few editorial changes to the documentation.

Cheers,

Neil
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