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| author | Tom Lane | 2001-11-23 22:06:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Tom Lane | 2001-11-23 22:06:20 +0000 |
| commit | c72fd1783eb83dbd68a4f1f3c91f5a3ec098afed (patch) | |
| tree | effec291cb9c36fe5f79f8f2116918019232e323 | |
| parent | 9958a2b3366cebdec895c0cc6dbfbce84e7fa03e (diff) | |
Copy-editing.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/history.sgml | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/intro.sgml | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/notation.sgml | 2 |
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/history.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/history.sgml index c9de0111a6..49218a01e8 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/history.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/history.sgml @@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ $Header$ <productname>Postgres</productname> has undergone several major releases since then. The first <quote>demoware</quote> system became operational in 1987 and was shown at the 1988 <acronym>ACM-SIGMOD</acronym> - Conference. We released Version 1, described in - <xref linkend="STON90a">, + Conference. Version 1, described in + <xref linkend="STON90a">, was released to a few external users in June 1989. In response to a critique of the first rule system (<xref linkend="STON89">), @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ $Header$ released in June 1990 with the new rule system. Version 3 appeared in 1991 and added support for multiple storage managers, an improved query executor, and a - rewritten rewrite rule system. For the most part, + rewritten rewrite rule system. For the most part, subsequent releases until <productname>Postgres95</productname> (see below) focused on portability and reliability. </para> @@ -87,7 +87,8 @@ $Header$ obvious that maintenance of the prototype code and support was taking up large amounts of time that should have been devoted to database research. In an effort - to reduce this support burden, the project officially + to reduce this support burden, the Berkeley + <productname>Postgres</productname> project officially ended with Version 4.2. </para> </sect2> diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/intro.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/intro.sgml index 7ebece6153..a6a5e60017 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/intro.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/intro.sgml @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ $Header$ processing applications. The relational model successfully replaced previous models in part because of its <quote>Spartan simplicity</quote>. - However, as mentioned, this simplicity often makes the + However, this simplicity makes the implementation of certain applications very difficult. <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> offers substantial additional power by incorporating the following additional @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ $Header$ category of databases referred to as <firstterm>object-relational</firstterm>. Note that this is distinct from those referred to as <firstterm>object-oriented</firstterm>, - which in general are not as well suited to supporting the + which in general are not as well suited to supporting traditional relational database languages. So, although <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> has some object-oriented features, it is firmly in the relational database diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/notation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/notation.sgml index e5277c0758..970de9fd0a 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/notation.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/notation.sgml @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ $Header$ Anything in braces (<literal>{</literal> and <literal>}</literal>) and containing vertical bars (<literal>|</literal>) - indicates that you must choose one. + indicates that you must choose one alternative. </para> <para> |