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| author | Bruce Momjian | 2007-01-31 20:56:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian | 2007-01-31 20:56:20 +0000 |
| commit | a134ee33794d7066143f5587d9c36bcca62bfc39 (patch) | |
| tree | 86772780b602023fbc8f9d7e50fb9d5fa5bd7c3f /doc/src/sgml/errcodes.sgml | |
| parent | 67a1ae9f05f9311768ba0a4819f6b09d449c4294 (diff) | |
Update documentation on may/can/might:
Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways:
may - permission, "You may borrow my rake."
can - ability, "I can lift that log."
might - possibility, "It might rain today."
Unfortunately, in conversational English, their use is often mixed, as
in, "You may use this variable to do X", when in fact, "can" is a better
choice. Similarly, "It may crash" is better stated, "It might crash".
Also update two error messages mentioned in the documenation to match.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src/sgml/errcodes.sgml')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/errcodes.sgml | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/errcodes.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/errcodes.sgml index ced6197d978..7c33f11e17a 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/errcodes.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/errcodes.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/errcodes.sgml,v 1.21 2006/12/24 00:29:17 tgl Exp $ --> +<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/errcodes.sgml,v 1.22 2007/01/31 20:56:17 momjian Exp $ --> <appendix id="errcodes-appendix"> <title><productname>PostgreSQL</productname> Error Codes</title> @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ According to the standard, the first two characters of an error code denote a class of errors, while the last three characters indicate a specific condition within that class. Thus, an application that - does not recognize the specific error code may still be able to infer + does not recognize the specific error code can still be able to infer what to do from the error class. </para> |