Re: pgsql: Use gender-neutral language in documentation

On 2015-09-22 04:59, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Use gender-neutral language in documentation
>
> Based on patch by Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>,
> although
> I rephrased most of the initial work.
>
> Branch
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> master
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> Details
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> http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/741ccd5015f82e31f80cdc5d2ae81263ea92d794
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I think this compulsive 'he'-avoiding is making the text worse.


-      environment variable); any user can make such a change for his
session.
+      environment variable); any user can make such a change for their
session.

Yuck.  even worse:

-   might not be the same as the database user he needs to connect as.
+   might not be the same as the database user that is to be connect as.


It is not an improvement.  I would like to see this change rolled back.


thanks,

Erik Rijkers