This patch fixes a bunch of spelling mistakes in comments throughout the

PostgreSQL source code.

Neil Conway

src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /* -----------------------------------------------------------------------
  * formatting.c
  *
- * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c,v 1.57 2002/11/08 20:23:56 momjian Exp $
+ * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c,v 1.58 2003/03/10 22:28:18 tgl Exp $
  *
  *
  *	 Portions Copyright (c) 1999-2002, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ typedef struct
 	int			pre,			/* (count) numbers before decimal */
 				post,			/* (count) numbers after decimal  */
 				lsign,			/* want locales sign		  */
-				flag,			/* number parametrs		  */
+				flag,			/* number parameters		  */
 				pre_lsign_num,	/* tmp value for lsign		  */
 				multi,			/* multiplier for 'V'		  */
 				zero_start,		/* position of first zero	  */
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ static KeySuffix DCH_suff[] = {
  * it is not good.
  *
  * (!)
- *	 - Position for the keyword is simular as position in the enum DCH/NUM_poz.
+ *	 - Position for the keyword is similar as position in the enum DCH/NUM_poz.
  * (!)
  *
  * For fast search is used the 'int index[]', index is ascii table from position
@@ -776,7 +776,7 @@ static int	DCH_index[KeyWord_INDEX_SIZE] = {
 /*
 0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
 */
-	/*---- first 0..31 chars are skiped ----*/
+	/*---- first 0..31 chars are skipped ----*/
 
 	-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
 	-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
@@ -838,9 +838,9 @@ typedef struct NUMProc
 				read_post;		/* to_number - number of dec. digit */
 
 	char	   *number,			/* string with number	*/
-			   *number_p,		/* pointer to current number pozition */
+			   *number_p,		/* pointer to current number position */
 			   *inout,			/* in / out buffer	*/
-			   *inout_p,		/* pointer to current inout pozition */
+			   *inout_p,		/* pointer to current inout position */
 			   *last_relevant,	/* last relevant number after decimal
 								 * point */
 
@@ -3753,7 +3753,7 @@ NUM_numpart_to_char(NUMProc *Np, int id)
 		else
 		{
 			/*
-			 * Write Decinal point
+			 * Write Decimal point
 			 */
 			if (*Np->number_p == '.')
 			{
@@ -3934,7 +3934,7 @@ NUM_processor(FormatNode *node, NUMDesc *Num, char *inout, char *number,
 			{
 				Np->sign_pos = Np->num_count + (Np->num_pre ? 1 : 0);
 
-				if (IS_DECIMAL(Np->Num))		/* decimal point correctio */
+				if (IS_DECIMAL(Np->Num))		/* decimal point correction */
 					++Np->sign_pos;
 			}
 			else if (IS_ZERO(Np->Num) && Np->num_pre > Np->Num->zero_start)

src/backend/utils/adt/name.c

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/name.c,v 1.42 2003/02/09 06:56:28 tgl Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/name.c,v 1.43 2003/03/10 22:28:18 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ namein(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 	int			len;
 	char	   *ermsg;
 
-	/* veryfy encoding */
+	/* verify encoding */
 	len = strlen(s);
 	if ((ermsg = pg_verifymbstr(s, len)))
 		elog(ERROR, "%s", ermsg);

src/backend/utils/adt/pg_lzcompress.c

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /* ----------
  * pg_lzcompress.c -
  *
- * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/pg_lzcompress.c,v 1.16 2002/11/23 03:59:08 momjian Exp $
+ * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/pg_lzcompress.c,v 1.17 2003/03/10 22:28:18 tgl Exp $
  *
  *		This is an implementation of LZ compression for PostgreSQL.
  *		It uses a simple history table and generates 2-3 byte tags
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
  *			makes total limits of 1-4095 for offset and 3-273 for length.
  *
  *			Now that we have successfully decoded a tag. We simply copy
- *			the output that occured <offset> bytes back to the current
+ *			the output that occurred <offset> bytes back to the current
  *			output location in the specified <length>. Thus, a
  *			sequence of 200 spaces (think about bpchar fields) could be
  *			coded in 4 bytes. One literal space and a three byte tag to
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ pglz_find_match(PGLZ_HistEntry **hstart, char *input, char *end,
 		 * bytes, it's worth the call overhead to use memcmp() to check if
 		 * this match is equal for the same size. After that we must
 		 * fallback to character by character comparison to know the exact
-		 * position where the diff occured.
+		 * position where the diff occurred.
 		 */
 		thislen = 0;
 		if (len >= 16)
@@ -783,7 +783,7 @@ pglz_get_next_decomp_char_from_lzdata(PGLZ_DecompState *dstate)
 		/*
 		 * This decompression method saves time only, if we stop near the
 		 * beginning of the data (maybe because we're called by a
-		 * comparision function and a difference occurs early). Otherwise,
+		 * comparison function and a difference occurs early). Otherwise,
 		 * all the checks, needed here, cause too much overhead.
 		 *
 		 * Thus we decompress the entire rest at once into the temporary

src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c,v 1.94 2002/12/06 05:20:17 momjian Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/varlena.c,v 1.95 2003/03/10 22:28:18 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -1663,7 +1663,7 @@ byteacmp(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 
 /*
  * replace_text
- * replace all occurences of 'old_sub_str' in 'orig_str'
+ * replace all occurrences of 'old_sub_str' in 'orig_str'
  * with 'new_sub_str' to form 'new_str'
  *
  * returns 'orig_str' if 'old_sub_str' == '' or 'orig_str' == ''

src/backend/utils/mb/conv.c

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/mb/conv.c,v 1.43 2002/09/04 20:31:31 momjian Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/mb/conv.c,v 1.44 2003/03/10 22:28:18 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ compare2(const void *p1, const void *p2)
  * UTF-8 ---> local code
  *
  * utf: input UTF-8 string. Its length is limited by "len" parameter
- *		or a null terminater.
+ *		or a null terminator.
  * iso: pointer to the output.
  * map: the conversion map.
  * size: the size of the conversion map.

src/backend/utils/mb/encnames.c

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
  * Encoding names and routines for work with it. All
  * in this file is shared bedween FE and BE.
  *
- * $Id: encnames.c,v 1.11 2002/12/05 23:21:07 momjian Exp $
+ * $Id: encnames.c,v 1.12 2003/03/10 22:28:18 tgl Exp $
  */
 #ifdef FRONTEND
 #include "postgres_fe.h"
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 /* ----------
  * All encoding names, sorted:		 *** A L P H A B E T I C ***
  *
- * All names must be without irrelevan chars, search routines use
+ * All names must be without irrelevant chars, search routines use
  * isalnum() chars only. It means ISO-8859-1, iso_8859-1 and Iso8859_1
  * are always converted to 'iso88591'. All must be lower case.
  *
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ pg_encname	pg_encname_tbl[] =
 	{
 		"eucjp", PG_EUC_JP
 	},							/* EUC-JP; Extended UNIX Code fixed Width
-								 * for Japanese, stdandard OSF */
+								 * for Japanese, standard OSF */
 	{
 		"euckr", PG_EUC_KR
 	},							/* EUC-KR; Extended Unix Code for Korean ,

src/backend/utils/mb/mbutils.c

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * (currently mule internal code (mic) is used)
  * Tatsuo Ishii
  *
- * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/mb/mbutils.c,v 1.38 2003/02/19 14:31:26 ishii Exp $
+ * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/mb/mbutils.c,v 1.39 2003/03/10 22:28:18 tgl Exp $
  */
 #include "postgres.h"
 
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static int cliplen(const unsigned char *str, int len, int limit);
 static bool need_to_init_client_encoding = -1;
 
 /*
- * Set the client encoding and save fmgrinfo for the converion
+ * Set the client encoding and save fmgrinfo for the conversion
  * function if necessary. if encoding conversion between client/server
  * encoding is not supported, returns -1
 */
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ SetClientEncoding(int encoding, bool doit)
 	if (!PG_VALID_FE_ENCODING(encoding))
 		return (-1);
 
-	/* If we cannot actualy set client encoding info, remeber it
+	/* If we cannot actually set client encoding info, remember it
 	 * so that we could set it using InitializeClientEncoding()
 	 * in InitPostgres()
 	 */
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ pg_get_client_encoding_name(void)
  * warn and returns src. We cannot raise an error, since it will cause
  * an infinit loop in error message sending.
  *
- * In the case of no coversion, src is returned.
+ * In the case of no conversion, src is returned.
  *
  * XXX We assume that storage for converted result is 4-to-1 growth in
  * the worst case. The rate for currently supported encoding pares are within 3
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ pg_convert2(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
 		elog(ERROR, "Encoding conversion failed");
 
 	/*
-	 * build text data type structre. we cannot use textin() here, since
+	 * build text data type structure. we cannot use textin() here, since
 	 * textin assumes that input string encoding is same as database
 	 * encoding.
 	 */

src/backend/utils/misc/database.c

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/misc/Attic/database.c,v 1.54 2002/11/08 20:23:57 momjian Exp $
+ *	  $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/misc/Attic/database.c,v 1.55 2003/03/10 22:28:19 tgl Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ static bool PhonyHeapTupleSatisfiesNow(HeapTupleHeader tuple);
  * pg_database.datpath) to a full absolute path for further consumption.
  * NULL means an error, which the caller should process. One reason for
  * such an error would be an absolute alternative path when no absolute
- * paths are alllowed.
+ * paths are allowed.
  */
 
 char *