diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
index dee6bc70340..c0a1b96f5bc 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml,v 1.69 2006/11/28 01:09:01 tgl Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml,v 1.69.2.1 2007/05/03 15:06:13 neilc Exp $ -->
 
 <chapter id="ddl">
  <title>Data Definition</title>
@@ -2233,7 +2233,7 @@ VALUES ('New York', NULL, NULL, 'NY');
 
     <listitem>
      <para>
-      When queries or updates access a large percentage of a a single
+      When queries or updates access a large percentage of a single
       partition, performance can be improved by taking advantage
       of sequential scan of that partition instead of using an
       index and random access reads scattered across the whole table.
@@ -2556,7 +2556,7 @@ DO INSTEAD
 </programlisting>
 
         Note that the <literal>WHERE</literal> clause in each rule
-        exactly matches the the <literal>CHECK</literal>
+        exactly matches the <literal>CHECK</literal>
         constraint for its partition.
        </para>
       </listitem>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml
index eab66860ed7..741e4ba2a7c 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml,v 2.59.2.1 2007/01/30 22:29:40 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml,v 2.59.2.2 2007/05/03 15:06:13 neilc Exp $ -->
 
  <chapter id="plperl">
   <title>PL/Perl - Perl Procedural Language</title>
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
   <para> The usual advantage to using PL/Perl is that this allows use,
    within stored functions, of the manyfold <quote>string
     munging</quote> operators and functions available for Perl.  Parsing
-   complex strings may be be easier using Perl than it is with the
+   complex strings may be easier using Perl than it is with the
    string functions and control structures provided in PL/pgSQL.</para>
   
   <para>
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ CREATE FUNCTION badfunc() RETURNS integer AS $$
 $$ LANGUAGE plperl;
 </programlisting>
     The creation of this function will fail as its use of a forbidden
-    operation will be be caught by the validator.
+    operation will be caught by the validator.
   </para>
 
   <para>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/spi.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/spi.sgml
index c6bf0791410..45599d32c66 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/spi.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/spi.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/spi.sgml,v 1.49 2006/10/23 18:10:32 petere Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/spi.sgml,v 1.49.2.1 2007/05/03 15:06:13 neilc Exp $ -->
 
 <chapter id="spi">
  <title>Server Programming Interface</title>
@@ -1904,7 +1904,7 @@ char * SPI_getvalue(HeapTuple <parameter>row</parameter>, TupleDesc <parameter>r
    Column value, or <symbol>NULL</symbol> if the column is null,
    <parameter>colnumber</parameter> is out of range
    (<varname>SPI_result</varname> is set to
-   <symbol>SPI_ERROR_NOATTRIBUTE</symbol>), or no no output function
+   <symbol>SPI_ERROR_NOATTRIBUTE</symbol>), or no output function is
    available (<varname>SPI_result</varname> is set to
    <symbol>SPI_ERROR_NOOUTFUNC</symbol>).
   </para>