Use "alternative" instead of "alternate" where it is clearer.

6 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/src/backend/access/common/heaptuple.c b/src/backend/access/common/heaptuple.c
index f1a80d6feee..a6dab8da121 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/common/heaptuple.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/common/heaptuple.c
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/common/heaptuple.c,v 1.117 2007/04/06 04:21:41 tgl Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/common/heaptuple.c,v 1.118 2007/11/07 12:24:23 petere Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ heap_attisnull(HeapTuple tup, int attnum)
  *
  *		This caches attribute offsets in the attribute descriptor.
  *
- *		An alternate way to speed things up would be to cache offsets
+ *		An alternative way to speed things up would be to cache offsets
  *		with the tuple, but that seems more difficult unless you take
  *		the storage hit of actually putting those offsets into the
  *		tuple you send to disk.  Yuck.
diff --git a/src/backend/access/common/indextuple.c b/src/backend/access/common/indextuple.c
index 471d28c28c4..5412ca0cf3d 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/common/indextuple.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/common/indextuple.c
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/common/indextuple.c,v 1.82 2007/04/06 04:21:41 tgl Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/common/indextuple.c,v 1.83 2007/11/07 12:24:24 petere Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ index_form_tuple(TupleDesc tupleDescriptor,
  *
  *		This caches attribute offsets in the attribute descriptor.
  *
- *		An alternate way to speed things up would be to cache offsets
+ *		An alternative way to speed things up would be to cache offsets
  *		with the tuple, but that seems more difficult unless you take
  *		the storage hit of actually putting those offsets into the
  *		tuple you send to disk.  Yuck.
diff --git a/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c b/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c
index 95890a86c4a..052393fc6b9 100644
--- a/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c
+++ b/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c,v 1.243 2007/10/16 17:05:26 tgl Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c,v 1.244 2007/11/07 12:24:24 petere Exp $
  *
  *
  * INTERFACE ROUTINES
@@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@ heap_openrv(const RangeVar *relation, LOCKMODE lockmode)
 /* ----------------
  *		heap_beginscan	- begin relation scan
  *
- * heap_beginscan_bm is an alternate entry point for setting up a HeapScanDesc
+ * heap_beginscan_bm is an alternative entry point for setting up a HeapScanDesc
  * for a bitmap heap scan.  Although that scan technology is really quite
  * unlike a standard seqscan, there is just enough commonality to make it
  * worth using the same data structure.
diff --git a/src/backend/catalog/pg_operator.c b/src/backend/catalog/pg_operator.c
index 10a1285205e..55a0cc0839b 100644
--- a/src/backend/catalog/pg_operator.c
+++ b/src/backend/catalog/pg_operator.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/catalog/pg_operator.c,v 1.100 2007/01/05 22:19:25 momjian Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/catalog/pg_operator.c,v 1.101 2007/11/07 12:24:24 petere Exp $
  *
  * NOTES
  *	  these routines moved here from commands/define.c and somewhat cleaned up.
@@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ OperatorCreate(const char *operatorName,
 	/*
 	 * If a commutator and/or negator link is provided, update the other
 	 * operator(s) to point at this one, if they don't already have a link.
-	 * This supports an alternate style of operator definition wherein the
+	 * This supports an alternative style of operator definition wherein the
 	 * user first defines one operator without giving negator or commutator,
 	 * then defines the other operator of the pair with the proper commutator
 	 * or negator attribute.  That style doesn't require creation of a shell,
diff --git a/src/backend/libpq/README.SSL b/src/backend/libpq/README.SSL
index 9b00a4f0fff..b45d53c8296 100644
--- a/src/backend/libpq/README.SSL
+++ b/src/backend/libpq/README.SSL
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ that establishes an SSH tunnel when the program is launched:
   /usr/bin/ssh -1 -i $IDENTITY -n $HOST 'sleep 60' & \
 	/usr/bin/psql -h $HOST -p 5555 $1
 
-Alternately, the system could run a daemon that establishes and maintains
+Alternatively, the system could run a daemon that establishes and maintains
 the tunnel.  This is preferrable when multiple users need to establish
 similar tunnels to the same remote site.
 
diff --git a/src/backend/libpq/be-secure.c b/src/backend/libpq/be-secure.c
index dfff484db83..efb8ecbb773 100644
--- a/src/backend/libpq/be-secure.c
+++ b/src/backend/libpq/be-secure.c
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/libpq/be-secure.c,v 1.80 2007/05/18 01:20:16 tgl Exp $
+ *	  $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/libpq/be-secure.c,v 1.81 2007/11/07 12:24:24 petere Exp $
  *
  *	  Since the server static private key ($DataDir/server.key)
  *	  will normally be stored unencrypted so that the database
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ char *SSLCipherSuites = NULL;
  *	unsecured connection without fully informing the user.
  *	Very uncool.
  *
- *	Alternately, the backend could attempt to load these files
+ *	Alternatively, the backend could attempt to load these files
  *	on startup if SSL is enabled - and refuse to start if any
  *	do not exist - but this would tend to piss off DBAs.
  *