Commit Graph

9 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruce Momjian 953c64e0f6 doc: add commas after 'i.e.' and 'e.g.'
This follows the American format,
https://jakubmarian.com/comma-after-i-e-and-e-g/. There is no intention
of requiring this format for future text, but making existing text
consistent every few years makes sense.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200825183619.GA22369@momjian.us

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-31 18:33:37 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 606c384598
Glossary: Add term "base backup"
Author: Jürgen Purtz <juergen@purtz.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/95f90a5d-7692-701d-2c0c-0c88eb5cea7d@purtz.de
2020-07-21 13:11:23 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera a0b2d583db
Minor glossary tweaks
Add "(process)" qualifier to two terms, remove self-reference in one
term.

Author: Jürgen Purtz <juergen@purtz.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/95f90a5d-7692-701d-2c0c-0c88eb5cea7d@purtz.de
2020-07-21 13:09:42 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 90b2d8c1ad doc: Spell checking 2020-07-05 15:37:57 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera 816cbb59e3 Adjust some glossary terms
Mostly in response to Jürgen Purtz critique of previous definitions,
though I added many other changes.

Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Jürgen Purtz <juergen@purtz.de>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c1e06008-2132-30f4-9b38-877e8683d418@purtz.de
2020-06-19 12:55:43 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera eeba6c7e43
Fix more typos and grammar problems in the glossary
Author: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/508f2fb1764c3bd518ee96a4f2247d6f@xs4all.nl
2020-05-16 22:21:07 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 1cbc143f06
Fix typo in glossary
Reported privately by Justin Pryzby
2020-05-16 15:10:36 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 756abe2bc7
Review of the glossary
Add some more terms, clarify some definitions, remove redundant terms,
move a couple of terms to keep alphabetical order.

Co-authored-by: Jürgen Purtz <juergen@purtz.de>
Co-authored-by: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
Co-authored-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7b9b469e804777ac9df4d37716db935e@xs4all.nl
2020-05-15 13:24:22 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 347d2b07fc
Add a glossary to the documentation
More work is still needed, but this is a good start.

Co-authored-by: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Jürgen Purtz <juergen@purtz.de>
Co-authored-by: Roger Harkavy <rogerharkavy@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADkLM=eP6HOeqDjn0FdXuGRusQu4oWH_LFsKjjafmhvWD=aSpQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-04-03 13:23:20 -03:00