On Wed, Jul 9, 2025 at 7:56 AM PG Doc comments form <nore...@postgresql.org> wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: > > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/auth-username-maps.html > Description: > > Dear all, > Pls. let me suggest the correction for the > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/auth-username-maps.html page. > It has the following sentence: > ' > If the database-username field starts with a slash (/), the remainder of > the > field is treated as a regular expression (see Section 9.7.3.1 for details > of > PostgreSQL's regular expression syntax). It is not possible to use \1 to > use > a capture from regular expression on system-username for a regular > expression on database-username. > ' > It looks like 'to use a capture' has to be replaced by 'to capture'. > best regards > > What is written is factually correct. Your suggestion makes it incorrect; and wouldn't be good English even if it was. "to capture" involves (...) while using said capture involves \# David J.
