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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/utils/adt/genfile.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/utils/adt/genfile.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/backend/utils/adt/genfile.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/genfile.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/genfile.c index 035f5bf0467..af277875c56 100644 --- a/src/backend/utils/adt/genfile.c +++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/genfile.c @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ * Author: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de> * * IDENTIFICATION - * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/genfile.c,v 1.14 2007/01/05 22:19:40 momjian Exp $ + * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/genfile.c,v 1.15 2007/02/01 19:10:28 momjian Exp $ * *------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ pg_read_file(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS) if (bytes_to_read < 0) ereport(ERROR, (errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE), - errmsg("requested length may not be negative"))); + errmsg("requested length cannot be negative"))); /* not sure why anyone thought that int64 length was a good idea */ if (bytes_to_read > (MaxAllocSize - VARHDRSZ)) |