Re: PSPP-BUG: Section 9.4.2 documentation clarity/meaning issue

[John Darrington]

Without checking the context, I think the problem is a comma where none is 
appropriate and a spelling mistake.  It ought to read:

  "Postgres data types of high precision lose precision when imported into 
PSPP."

J'


On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 03:05:22PM -0400, knassen@chartermi.net wrote:
> Here's something in the PDF of the pspp manual that I couldn't figure out
> reliably.  See Section 9.4.2 Postgres Database Queries.  The sentence
> fragment is "Postgres data types of high precision, loose precision when
> imported into PSPP."  Perhaps that "when" needs to be fixed, e.g.,
> "can/cannot be imported."  Or maybe more needs to be added at the end of the
> sentence, e.g. "into PSPP become [something else]."  Or maybe the issue is
> around "loose precision, e.g., "converted to loose precision when imported."
> I'm not sure.