Various minor corrections of and improvements to comments.

Aleksander Alekseev

Author: robertmhaas

contrib/pg_trgm/trgm_gin.c

@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ gin_trgm_consistent(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 			 * And again, c (ntrue) is a lower bound of len2, but c <= len1
 			 * just by definition and, consequently, upper bound of
 			 * similarity is just c / len1.
-			 * So, independly on DIVUNION the upper bound formula is the same.
+			 * So, independently on DIVUNION the upper bound formula is the same.
 			 */
 			res = (nkeys == 0) ? false :
 				(((((float4) ntrue) / ((float4) nkeys))) >= nlimit);
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ gin_trgm_triconsistent(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 			else
 			{
 				/*
-				 * As trigramsMatchGraph implements a montonic boolean function,
+				 * As trigramsMatchGraph implements a monotonic boolean function,
 				 * promoting all GIN_MAYBE keys to GIN_TRUE will give a
 				 * conservative result.
 				 */

contrib/pg_trgm/trgm_op.c

@@ -628,7 +628,7 @@ calc_word_similarity(char *str1, int slen1, char *str2, int slen2,
 
 
 /*
- * Extract the next non-wildcard part of a search string, ie, a word bounded
+ * Extract the next non-wildcard part of a search string, i.e. a word bounded
  * by '_' or '%' meta-characters, non-word characters or string end.
  *
  * str: source string, of length lenstr bytes (need not be null-terminated)

src/backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c

@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ timestamp_recv(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 				 errmsg("timestamp cannot be NaN")));
 #endif
 
-	/* rangecheck: see if timestamp_out would like it */
+	/* range check: see if timestamp_out would like it */
 	if (TIMESTAMP_NOT_FINITE(timestamp))
 		 /* ok */ ;
 	else if (timestamp2tm(timestamp, NULL, tm, &fsec, NULL, NULL) != 0 ||
@@ -792,7 +792,7 @@ timestamptz_recv(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	timestamp = (TimestampTz) pq_getmsgfloat8(buf);
 #endif
 
-	/* rangecheck: see if timestamptz_out would like it */
+	/* range check: see if timestamptz_out would like it */
 	if (TIMESTAMP_NOT_FINITE(timestamp))
 		 /* ok */ ;
 	else if (timestamp2tm(timestamp, &tz, tm, &fsec, NULL, NULL) != 0 ||
@@ -1435,7 +1435,7 @@ AdjustIntervalForTypmod(Interval *interval, int32 typmod)
 		else
 			elog(ERROR, "unrecognized interval typmod: %d", typmod);
 
-		/* Need to adjust subsecond precision? */
+		/* Need to adjust sub-second precision? */
 		if (precision != INTERVAL_FULL_PRECISION)
 		{
 			if (precision < 0 || precision > MAX_INTERVAL_PRECISION)
@@ -1635,7 +1635,7 @@ IntegerTimestampToTimestampTz(int64 timestamp)
  * Both inputs must be ordinary finite timestamps (in current usage,
  * they'll be results from GetCurrentTimestamp()).
  *
- * We expect start_time <= stop_time.  If not, we return zeroes; for current
+ * We expect start_time <= stop_time.  If not, we return zeros; for current
  * callers there is no need to be tense about which way division rounds on
  * negative inputs.
  */
@@ -2276,7 +2276,7 @@ timestamp_hash(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 
 
 /*
- * Crosstype comparison functions for timestamp vs timestamptz
+ * Cross-type comparison functions for timestamp vs timestamptz
  */
 
 Datum
@@ -2678,7 +2678,7 @@ overlaps_timestamp(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	{
 		/*
 		 * For ts1 = ts2 the spec says te1 <> te2 OR te1 = te2, which is a
-		 * rather silly way of saying "true if both are nonnull, else null".
+		 * rather silly way of saying "true if both are non-null, else null".
 		 */
 		if (te1IsNull || te2IsNull)
 			PG_RETURN_NULL();
@@ -2996,7 +2996,7 @@ timestamp_pl_interval(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 						(errcode(ERRCODE_DATETIME_VALUE_OUT_OF_RANGE),
 						 errmsg("timestamp out of range")));
 
-			/* Add days by converting to and from julian */
+			/* Add days by converting to and from Julian */
 			julian = date2j(tm->tm_year, tm->tm_mon, tm->tm_mday) + span->day;
 			j2date(julian, &tm->tm_year, &tm->tm_mon, &tm->tm_mday);
 
@@ -3104,7 +3104,7 @@ timestamptz_pl_interval(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 						(errcode(ERRCODE_DATETIME_VALUE_OUT_OF_RANGE),
 						 errmsg("timestamp out of range")));
 
-			/* Add days by converting to and from julian */
+			/* Add days by converting to and from Julian */
 			julian = date2j(tm->tm_year, tm->tm_mon, tm->tm_mday) + span->day;
 			j2date(julian, &tm->tm_year, &tm->tm_mon, &tm->tm_mday);
 
@@ -3309,7 +3309,7 @@ interval_mul(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	/*
 	 * The above correctly handles the whole-number part of the month and day
 	 * products, but we have to do something with any fractional part
-	 * resulting when the factor is nonintegral.  We cascade the fractions
+	 * resulting when the factor is non-integral.  We cascade the fractions
 	 * down to lower units using the conversion factors DAYS_PER_MONTH and
 	 * SECS_PER_DAY.  Note we do NOT cascade up, since we are not forced to do
 	 * so by the representation.  The user can choose to cascade up later,
@@ -3319,7 +3319,7 @@ interval_mul(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	/*
 	 * Fractional months full days into days.
 	 *
-	 * Floating point calculation are inherently inprecise, so these
+	 * Floating point calculation are inherently imprecise, so these
 	 * calculations are crafted to produce the most reliable result possible.
 	 * TSROUND() is needed to more accurately produce whole numbers where
 	 * appropriate.

src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c

@@ -1634,7 +1634,7 @@ static struct config_bool ConfigureNamesBool[] =
 
 	{
 		{"syslog_sequence_numbers", PGC_SIGHUP, LOGGING_WHERE,
-			gettext_noop("Add sequence number to syslog messags to avoid duplicate suppression."),
+			gettext_noop("Add sequence number to syslog messages to avoid duplicate suppression."),
 			NULL
 		},
 		&syslog_sequence_numbers,
@@ -2681,7 +2681,7 @@ static struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
 
 	{
 		{"ssl_renegotiation_limit", PGC_USERSET, CONN_AUTH_SECURITY,
-			gettext_noop("SSL regenotiation is no longer supported; this can only be 0."),
+			gettext_noop("SSL renegotiation is no longer supported; this can only be 0."),
 			NULL,
 			GUC_NO_SHOW_ALL | GUC_NOT_IN_SAMPLE | GUC_DISALLOW_IN_FILE,
 		},
@@ -4059,7 +4059,7 @@ get_guc_variables(void)
 
 /*
  * Build the sorted array.  This is split out so that it could be
- * re-executed after startup (eg, we could allow loadable modules to
+ * re-executed after startup (e.g., we could allow loadable modules to
  * add vars, and then we'd need to re-sort).
  */
 void
@@ -5904,7 +5904,7 @@ set_config_option(const char *name, const char *value,
 				 * don't re-read the config file during backend start.
 				 *
 				 * In EXEC_BACKEND builds, this works differently: we load all
-				 * nondefault settings from the CONFIG_EXEC_PARAMS file during
+				 * non-default settings from the CONFIG_EXEC_PARAMS file during
 				 * backend start.  In that case we must accept PGC_SIGHUP
 				 * settings, so as to have the same value as if we'd forked
 				 * from the postmaster.  This can also happen when using
@@ -6663,7 +6663,7 @@ GetConfigOptionResetString(const char *name)
  * We need to be told the name of the variable the args are for, because
  * the flattening rules vary (ugh).
  *
- * The result is NULL if args is NIL (ie, SET ... TO DEFAULT), otherwise
+ * The result is NULL if args is NIL (i.e., SET ... TO DEFAULT), otherwise
  * a palloc'd string.
  */
 static char *
@@ -7994,7 +7994,7 @@ GetConfigOptionByNum(int varnum, const char **values, bool *noshow)
 	/* source */
 	values[8] = GucSource_Names[conf->source];
 
-	/* now get the type specifc attributes */
+	/* now get the type specific attributes */
 	switch (conf->vartype)
 	{
 		case PGC_BOOL:
@@ -9531,7 +9531,7 @@ validate_option_array_item(const char *name, const char *value,
 	 * There are three cases to consider:
 	 *
 	 * name is a known GUC variable.  Check the value normally, check
-	 * permissions normally (ie, allow if variable is USERSET, or if it's
+	 * permissions normally (i.e., allow if variable is USERSET, or if it's
 	 * SUSET and user is superuser).
 	 *
 	 * name is not known, but exists or can be created as a placeholder (i.e.,

src/backend/utils/sort/tuplesort.c

@@ -2742,7 +2742,7 @@ batchmemtuples(Tuplesortstate *state)
 	/*
 	 * Refund STANDARDCHUNKHEADERSIZE per tuple.
 	 *
-	 * This sometimes fails to make memory use prefectly balanced, but it
+	 * This sometimes fails to make memory use perfectly balanced, but it
 	 * should never make the situation worse.  Note that Assert-enabled builds
 	 * get a larger refund, due to a varying STANDARDCHUNKHEADERSIZE.
 	 */