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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2007-01-31 20:56:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2007-01-31 20:56:20 +0000 |
| commit | a134ee33794d7066143f5587d9c36bcca62bfc39 (patch) | |
| tree | 86772780b602023fbc8f9d7e50fb9d5fa5bd7c3f /src/backend/parser/parse_oper.c | |
| parent | 67a1ae9f05f9311768ba0a4819f6b09d449c4294 (diff) | |
| download | postgresql-a134ee33794d7066143f5587d9c36bcca62bfc39.tar.gz postgresql-a134ee33794d7066143f5587d9c36bcca62bfc39.zip | |
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 'src/backend/parser/parse_oper.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/backend/parser/parse_oper.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/parser/parse_oper.c b/src/backend/parser/parse_oper.c index 3052fd0563e..17194181870 100644 --- a/src/backend/parser/parse_oper.c +++ b/src/backend/parser/parse_oper.c @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ * * * IDENTIFICATION - * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/parser/parse_oper.c,v 1.91 2007/01/05 22:19:34 momjian Exp $ + * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/parser/parse_oper.c,v 1.92 2007/01/31 20:56:20 momjian Exp $ * *------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ @@ -771,7 +771,7 @@ op_error(ParseState *pstate, List *op, char oprkind, errmsg("operator is not unique: %s", op_signature_string(op, oprkind, arg1, arg2)), errhint("Could not choose a best candidate operator. " - "You may need to add explicit type casts."), + "You might need to add explicit type casts."), parser_errposition(pstate, location))); else ereport(ERROR, @@ -779,7 +779,7 @@ op_error(ParseState *pstate, List *op, char oprkind, errmsg("operator does not exist: %s", op_signature_string(op, oprkind, arg1, arg2)), errhint("No operator matches the given name and argument type(s). " - "You may need to add explicit type casts."), + "You might need to add explicit type casts."), parser_errposition(pstate, location))); } |