Re: "May", "can", "might"

I have made these adjustments to the documentation.  Do people want the
error message strings also updated?  It will probably make the
translation easier/clearer in the future, but it does involve some error
message wording churn.  CVS HEAD only, of course.

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bruce wrote:
> 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".
> 
> I would like to clean up our documentation to consistently use these
> words.  Objections?
> 
> (Who says were obsessive?)  :-)
> 
> -- 
>   Bruce Momjian   bruce@momjian.us
>   EnterpriseDB    http://www.enterprisedb.com
> 
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