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authorTom Lane2011-05-24 22:52:15 +0000
committerTom Lane2011-05-24 22:52:15 +0000
commit446d5d32aedcca378578c8fe1c2eed34df92a238 (patch)
tree01357d95d333166c676c38be495ff7433cb12035 /src/test
parentb23aeb6519651146cf35b2b91d24596f37b40794 (diff)
Grammar cleanup for src/test/isolation/README
Josh Kupershmidt
Diffstat (limited to 'src/test')
-rw-r--r--src/test/isolation/README8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/test/isolation/README b/src/test/isolation/README
index ee94081f09a..087ac279c7a 100644
--- a/src/test/isolation/README
+++ b/src/test/isolation/README
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Isolation tests
===============
This directory contains a set of tests for the serializable isolation level.
-Testing isolation requires running multiple overlapping transactions, so
+Testing isolation requires running multiple overlapping transactions,
which requires multiple concurrent connections, and can't therefore be
tested using the normal pg_regress program.
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ file with a custom syntax, described in the next section.
isolationtester is program that uses libpq to open multiple connections,
and executes a test specified by a spec file. A libpq connection string
-to specify the server and database to connect to, the defaults derived from
+specifies the server and database to connect to; defaults derived from
environment variables are used otherwise.
-pg_isolation_regress is a tool identical to pg_regress, but instead of using
+pg_isolation_regress is a tool similar to pg_regress, but instead of using
psql to execute a test, it uses isolationtester.
To run the tests, you need to have a server up and running. Run
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ session "<name>"
permutation "<step name>" ...
- A permutation line specifies a list of steps that are ran in that order.
+ A permutation line specifies a list of steps that are run in that order.
If no permutation lines are given, the test program automatically generates
all possible overlapping orderings of the given sessions.