On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 08:59:05PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > James Coleman <jtc...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:13 PM Justin Pryzby <pry...@telsasoft.com> wrote: >>> I think my text is correct. This would *also* be correct: >>> | If any <literal>CHECK</literal> constraint on the table being >>> | attached is marked <literal>NO INHERIT</literal>, the command will >>> fail; >>> But not the hybrid: "If any OF THE .. is .." > >> "any of the...are" sounds more natural to my ears, > > Yeah, I think the same. If you want to argue grammar, I'd point > out that the "any" could refer to several of the constraints, > making it correct to use the plural verb. The alternative that > Justin mentions could be written as "If any one constraint is ...", > which is correct in that form; but the plural way seems less stilted.
Hm, okay. There are still pieces in those patches about which I am not sure, so I have let that aside for the time being. Anyway, I have applied patch 12, and reported the typos from imath.c directly to upstream: https://github.com/creachadair/imath/issues/45 https://github.com/creachadair/imath/issues/46 -- Michael
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