Re: fixes for "about"

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Hi Neil,

On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Neil Conway wrote:

>> From http://www.postgresql.org/about/, first paragraph:
>
>        It runs on all major operating systems, including Linux, UNIX
>        (AIX, BSD, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, Mac OS X, Solaris, SunOS, Tru64),
>        BeOS, and Windows.
>
> BeOS is unsupported by recent releases, as is SunOS.

Done.

> Second paragraph from the top:
>
>        An enterprise class database, PostgreSQL boasts sophisticated
>        features such as the Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC),
>
> "such as Multi-Version Concurrency Control" is better, I think.

Done.

>        point in time recovery, tablespaces, asynchronous replication,
>        nested transactions (savepoints), online/hot backups, a
>        sophisticated query planner/optimizer, and write ahead log for
>        fault tolerance.
>
> Should be "write ahead logging", or "a write ahead log", etc.

Done.

>        It supports international character sets, multibyte character
>        encodings, Unicode, and in is locale-aware for sorting,
>        case-sensitivity, and formatting.
>
> "... and it is locale-aware", I believe.

Done.

>        It is highly scalable both in sheer quantity of data it can
>        manage and and in the number of concurrent users it can
>        accommodate.
>
> Should be "highly scalable both in the sheer ..."

Done.

> The second paragraph of the section "Featureful and Standards
> Compliant":
>
>        Data integrity features include (compound) primary keys, foreign
>        keys with restricting and cascading updates/deletes, check
>        constraints, unique constraints, and not null constraints, all
>        of which are deferrable.
>
> Primary keys, check constraints, unique constraints, and not null
> constraints are not in fact deferrable.


Done.

> Would someone be kind enough to make these fixes for me?

The changes will appear in next site build.

Cheers,
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Devrim GUNDUZ
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