Robert Haas wrote: > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > > Robert Haas wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > We should enclose -1 with <literal> tag. > >> > >> A quick survey of the documentation as a whole suggests that we > >> enclose -1 with <literal> in a few places but more commonly we don't. > >> I have no position on whether we should do it or not, but maybe we > >> should try to be consistent throughout the docs? ?Or at least have a > >> consistent rule for deciding what to do in a particular case? > > > > Excellent question. ?I went through the documentation and removed > > <literal> tags where appropriate --- there are cases where we are > > referencing an actual number, and there <literal> makes sense. ?Applied > > patch attached. > > > > I think the larger question is whether we should say "zero" for 0 and > > "one" for 1, etc. ?Prose typography suggests we should, but for > > technical manuals, I am not sure. ?Ideas? > > I am doubtful that this makes sense in general. I suspect it depends > somewhat on context.
We do spell out "zero" in a few cases where it makes sense, so it seems we need no change here. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
