Re: [PATCH] SE-PgSQL/tiny rev.2193 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: [PATCH] SE-PgSQL/tiny rev.2193
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Msg-id 407d949e0907210506i5f7e7d6fy3334f488b0326873@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [PATCH] SE-PgSQL/tiny rev.2193  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:51 AM, Robert Haas<robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I really, really think you need to find someone to help you with the
> documentation.  As I've said before, your English is a lot better than
> my Japanese, but the current documentation is just hard to read.


In general we're very generous with English writing quality. I
wouldn't worry too much about the language barrier as far as writing
documentation.

However the snippets Robert posted of the documentation had a more
fundamental problem unrelated to language. The problem is that it
explained what an option did in terms of what that option did -- ie,
the documentation only made sense if you already knew what it was
trying to say. That's not an unusual trap to get into when writing
documentation regardless of what language you're writing in.

--
greg
http://mit.edu/~gsstark/resume.pdf


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