Fix typos in comments.

Backpatch to all supported versions, where applicable, to make backpatching
of future fixes go more smoothly.

Josh Soref

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CACZqfqCf+5qRztLPgmmosr-B0Ye4srWzzw_mo4c_8_B_mtjmJQ@mail.gmail.com

src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c

@@ -2278,7 +2278,7 @@ seq_search(char *name, const char *const * array, int type, int max, int *len)
 
 	for (last = 0, a = array; *a != NULL; a++)
 	{
-		/* comperate first chars */
+		/* compare first chars */
 		if (*name != **a)
 			continue;
 

src/backend/utils/adt/rangetypes_selfuncs.c

@@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ calc_hist_selectivity(TypeCacheEntry *typcache, VariableStatData *vardata,
 			{
 				/*
 				 * Lower bound no longer matters. Just estimate the fraction
-				 * with an upper bound <= const uppert bound
+				 * with an upper bound <= const upper bound
 				 */
 				hist_selec =
 					calc_hist_selectivity_scalar(typcache, &const_upper,

src/backend/utils/adt/tsrank.c

@@ -778,7 +778,7 @@ calc_rank_cd(const float4 *arrdata, TSVector txt, TSQuery query, int method)
 
 		/*
 		 * if doc are big enough then ext.q may be equal to ext.p due to limit
-		 * of posional information. In this case we approximate number of
+		 * of positional information. In this case we approximate number of
 		 * noise word as half cover's length
 		 */
 		nNoise = (ext.q - ext.p) - (ext.end - ext.begin);
@@ -787,7 +787,7 @@ calc_rank_cd(const float4 *arrdata, TSVector txt, TSQuery query, int method)
 		Wdoc += Cpos / ((double) (1 + nNoise));
 
 		CurExtPos = ((double) (ext.q + ext.p)) / 2.0;
-		if (NExtent > 0 && CurExtPos > PrevExtPos		/* prevent devision by
+		if (NExtent > 0 && CurExtPos > PrevExtPos		/* prevent division by
 														 * zero in a case of
 				multiple lexize */ )
 			SumDist += 1.0 / (CurExtPos - PrevExtPos);

src/backend/utils/adt/windowfuncs.c

@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ window_lag(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 
 /*
  * lag_with_offset
- * returns the value of VE evelulated on a row that is OFFSET
+ * returns the value of VE evaluated on a row that is OFFSET
  * rows before the current row within a partition,
  * per spec.
  */

src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c

@@ -1033,7 +1033,7 @@ RelationInitPhysicalAddr(Relation relation)
 		 * points to the current file since the older file will be gone (or
 		 * truncated). The new file will still contain older rows so lookups
 		 * in them will work correctly. This wouldn't work correctly if
-		 * rewrites were allowed to change the schema in a noncompatible way,
+		 * rewrites were allowed to change the schema in an incompatible way,
 		 * but those are prevented both on catalog tables and on user tables
 		 * declared as additional catalog tables.
 		 */

src/backend/utils/init/postinit.c

@@ -1062,7 +1062,7 @@ process_settings(Oid databaseid, Oid roleid)
 
 	relsetting = heap_open(DbRoleSettingRelationId, AccessShareLock);
 
-	/* read all the settings under the same snapsot for efficiency */
+	/* read all the settings under the same snapshot for efficiency */
 	snapshot = RegisterSnapshot(GetCatalogSnapshot(DbRoleSettingRelationId));
 
 	/* Later settings are ignored if set earlier. */

src/backend/utils/misc/Makefile

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ OBJS = guc.o help_config.o pg_rusage.o ps_status.o rbtree.o \
        superuser.o timeout.o tzparser.o
 
 # This location might depend on the installation directories. Therefore
-# we can't subsitute it into pg_config.h.
+# we can't substitute it into pg_config.h.
 ifdef krb_srvtab
 override CPPFLAGS += -DPG_KRB_SRVTAB='"$(krb_srvtab)"'
 endif

src/backend/utils/time/tqual.c

@@ -1566,7 +1566,7 @@ HeapTupleHeaderIsOnlyLocked(HeapTupleHeader tuple)
 }
 
 /*
- * check whether the transaciont id 'xid' is in the pre-sorted array 'xip'.
+ * check whether the transaction id 'xid' is in the pre-sorted array 'xip'.
  */
 static bool
 TransactionIdInArray(TransactionId xid, TransactionId *xip, Size num)