diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
index 0387b96a658..065c5f30e39 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
@@ -2239,7 +2239,7 @@ January 8 04:05:06 1999 PST
Time zones, and time-zone conventions, are influenced by
political decisions, not just earth geometry. Time zones around the
- world became somewhat standardized during the 1900's,
+ world became somewhat standardized during the 1900s,
but continue to be prone to arbitrary changes, particularly with
respect to daylight-savings rules.
PostgreSQL uses the widely-used
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/pgbench.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/pgbench.sgml
index 2142ee65366..dbb6495cf45 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/pgbench.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/pgbench.sgml
@@ -637,7 +637,7 @@ END;
(useful when multiple scripts were specified with -f),
and time_epoch/time_us are a
UNIX epoch format timestamp and an offset
- in microseconds (suitable for creating a ISO 8601
+ in microseconds (suitable for creating an ISO 8601
timestamp with fractional seconds) showing when
the transaction completed.
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/pgcrypto.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/pgcrypto.sgml
index 8c37e9e5f03..34a05654ab9 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/pgcrypto.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/pgcrypto.sgml
@@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ pgp_pub_encrypt_bytea(data bytea, key bytea [, options text ]) returns bytea
Encrypt data with a public PGP key key.
- Giving this function a secret key will produce a error.
+ Giving this function a secret key will produce an error.
The options parameter can contain option settings,
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/pltcl.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/pltcl.sgml
index 7ab05c51c93..ae5a98b9b92 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/pltcl.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/pltcl.sgml
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
Sometimes it is desirable to write Tcl functions that are not restricted
to safe Tcl. For example, one might want a Tcl function that sends
email. To handle these cases, there is a variant of PL/Tcl called PL/TclU
- (for untrusted Tcl). This is the exact same language except that a full
+ (for untrusted Tcl). This is exactly the same language except that a full
Tcl interpreter is used. If PL/TclU is used, it must be
installed as an untrusted procedural language so that only
database superusers can create functions in it. The writer of a PL/TclU
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_tsdictionary.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_tsdictionary.sgml
index 458e4c48f5e..ab93c1b2bdd 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_tsdictionary.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_tsdictionary.sgml
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ ALTER TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY my_dict ( StopWords = newrussian );
- The following example command changes the language option to dutch,
+ The following example command changes the language option to dutch,
and removes the stopword option entirely.
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/comment.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/comment.sgml
index ee2f39b2df9..7282136a7e4 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/comment.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/comment.sgml
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ COMMENT ON SEQUENCE my_sequence IS 'Used to generate primary keys';
COMMENT ON TABLE my_schema.my_table IS 'Employee Information';
COMMENT ON TABLESPACE my_tablespace IS 'Tablespace for indexes';
COMMENT ON TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION my_config IS 'Special word filtering';
-COMMENT ON TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY swedish IS 'Snowball stemmer for swedish language';
+COMMENT ON TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY swedish IS 'Snowball stemmer for Swedish language';
COMMENT ON TEXT SEARCH PARSER my_parser IS 'Splits text into words';
COMMENT ON TEXT SEARCH TEMPLATE snowball IS 'Snowball stemmer';
COMMENT ON TRIGGER my_trigger ON my_table IS 'Used for RI';
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-7.4.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-7.4.sgml
index 2ad8b5fd42c..5a4c52d4c2d 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-7.4.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-7.4.sgml
@@ -3797,7 +3797,7 @@ DROP SCHEMA information_schema CASCADE;
This enabled GRANT to give other users the
- ability to grant privileges on a object.
+ ability to grant privileges on an object.
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml
index d1881fdf946..7f6a74bac9f 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml
@@ -5883,7 +5883,7 @@
The new syntax is CREATE
INDEX CONCURRENTLY. The default behavior is
- still to block table modification while a index is being
+ still to block table modification while an index is being
created.
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-old.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-old.sgml
index 1c42f1ba7d9..ec8e43f6eae 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-old.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-old.sgml
@@ -4849,7 +4849,7 @@ New DECLARE and FETCH feature(Thomas)
libpq's internal structures now not exported(Tom)
Allow up to 8 key indexes(Bruce)
Remove ARCHIVE key word, that is no longer used(Thomas)
-pg_dump -n flag to suppress quotes around indentifiers
+pg_dump -n flag to suppress quotes around identifiers
disable system columns for views(Jan)
new INET and CIDR types for network addresses(TomH, Paul)
no more double quotes in psql output
@@ -5250,7 +5250,7 @@ Support SQL92 syntax for type coercion of literal strings
(e.g. "DATETIME 'now'")(Thomas)
Add conversions for int2, int4, and OID types to and from text(Thomas)
Use shared lock when building indexes(Vadim)
-Free memory allocated for an user query inside transaction block after
+Free memory allocated for a user query inside transaction block after
this query is done, was turned off in <= 6.2.1(Vadim)
New SQL statement CREATE PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE(Jan)
New PostgreSQL Procedural Language (PL) backend interface(Jan)
@@ -6514,7 +6514,7 @@ Incompatible changes:
New tools:
* pgperl - a Perl (4.036) interface to Postgres95
* pg_dump - a utility for dumping out a postgres database into a
- script file containing query commands. The script files are in a ASCII
+ script file containing query commands. The script files are in an ASCII
format and can be used to reconstruct the database, even on other
machines and other architectures. (Also good for converting
a Postgres 4.2 database to Postgres95 database.)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet.dsl b/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet.dsl
index d3a06076454..f201db02269 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet.dsl
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/stylesheet.dsl
@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@
;; By default, the part and reference title pages get wrong page
;; numbers: The first title page gets roman numerals carried over from
-;; preface/toc -- we want arabic numerals. We also need to make sure
+;; preface/toc -- we want Arabic numerals. We also need to make sure
;; that page-number-restart is set of #f explicitly, because otherwise
;; it will carry over from the previous component, which is not good.
;;
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/textsearch.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/textsearch.sgml
index 3f8248a935a..682f9f4870f 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/textsearch.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/textsearch.sgml
@@ -2425,7 +2425,7 @@ more sample word(s) : more indexed word(s)
where the colon (:) symbol acts as a delimiter between a
- a phrase and its replacement.
+ phrase and its replacement.
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/xml2.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/xml2.sgml
index ee32bc774c0..811da762569 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/xml2.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/xml2.sgml
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ AS t(article_id integer, author text, page_count integer, title text);
The calling SELECT statement doesn't necessarily have be
- be just SELECT * — it can reference the output
+ just SELECT * — it can reference the output
columns by name or join them to other tables. The function produces a
virtual table with which you can perform any operation you wish (e.g.
aggregation, joining, sorting etc). So we could also have:
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/xoper.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/xoper.sgml
index b1b82e69688..aa84fbcfdd3 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/xoper.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/xoper.sgml
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ SELECT (a + b) AS c FROM test_complex;
Unlike commutators, a pair of unary operators could validly be marked
- as each others' negators; that would mean (A x) equals NOT (B x)
+ as each other's negators; that would mean (A x) equals NOT (B x)
for all x, or the equivalent for right unary operators.