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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2007-02-01 19:10:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2007-02-01 19:10:30 +0000 |
| commit | 8b4ff8b6a14096a28910fbff3d485f30dcb9a637 (patch) | |
| tree | c250f17f4a8e3bfee442970a0666431ed8310650 /src/backend/commands/sequence.c | |
| parent | baaec74c5a953032049015883802660edd821cac (diff) | |
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Wording cleanup for error messages. Also change can't -> cannot.
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".
Diffstat (limited to 'src/backend/commands/sequence.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/backend/commands/sequence.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/commands/sequence.c b/src/backend/commands/sequence.c index 73ef84d5ffd..bd06bfb5da3 100644 --- a/src/backend/commands/sequence.c +++ b/src/backend/commands/sequence.c @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ * * * IDENTIFICATION - * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/commands/sequence.c,v 1.142 2007/01/05 22:19:26 momjian Exp $ + * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/commands/sequence.c,v 1.143 2007/02/01 19:10:26 momjian Exp $ * *------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ @@ -1121,7 +1121,7 @@ init_params(List *options, bool isInit, snprintf(bufm, sizeof(bufm), INT64_FORMAT, new->min_value); ereport(ERROR, (errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE), - errmsg("START value (%s) can't be less than MINVALUE (%s)", + errmsg("START value (%s) cannot be less than MINVALUE (%s)", bufs, bufm))); } if (new->last_value > new->max_value) @@ -1133,7 +1133,7 @@ init_params(List *options, bool isInit, snprintf(bufm, sizeof(bufm), INT64_FORMAT, new->max_value); ereport(ERROR, (errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE), - errmsg("START value (%s) can't be greater than MAXVALUE (%s)", + errmsg("START value (%s) cannot be greater than MAXVALUE (%s)", bufs, bufm))); } |