David Rowley wrote:
> On 21 March 2016 at 15:48, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > David Rowley wrote:
> >
> >> I've rewritten the comment to become:
> >>
> >> /*
> >> * Providing that the estimated size of the hashtable does not exceed
> >> * work_mem, we'll generate a HashAgg Path, although if we were unable
> >> * to sort above, then we'd better generate a Path, so that we at least
> >> * have one.
> >> */
> >>
> >> How about that?
> >
> > I think "Providing" should be "Provided".
>
> Both make sense, although I do only see instances of "Provided that"
> in the source.
Interesting. "Providing that" seems awkward to me, and I had only seen
the other wording thus far, but
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/149459/what-is-the-difference-between-providing-that-and-provided-that
explains that I'm wrong.
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