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Wording cleanup for error messages. Also change can't -> cannot.

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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Commit: 8b4ff8b6a14096a28910fbff3d485f30dcb9a637
Author: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: 2007-02-01T19:10:30Z
Releases: 8.3.0 
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".

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contrib/spi/autoinc.c modified +2 −2
contrib/spi/insert_username.c modified +3 −3
contrib/spi/moddatetime.c modified +3 −3
contrib/spi/refint.c modified +4 −4
contrib/spi/timetravel.c modified +2 −2
contrib/tsearch2/dict_thesaurus.c modified +2 −2
contrib/tsearch2/tsvector.c modified +1 −1
doc/src/sgml/ecpg.sgml modified +4 −4
doc/src/sgml/gin.sgml modified +2 −2
doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml modified +2 −2
doc/src/sgml/lobj.sgml modified +7 −7
doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml modified +2 −2
doc/src/sgml/perform.sgml modified +2 −2
doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml modified +3 −3
doc/src/sgml/queries.sgml modified +2 −2
doc/src/sgml/ref/create_function.sgml modified +2 −2
doc/src/sgml/ref/create_rule.sgml modified +2 −2
doc/src/sgml/ref/create_trigger.sgml modified +2 −2
doc/src/sgml/ref/initdb.sgml modified +3 −3
doc/src/sgml/ref/notify.sgml modified +2 −2
doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml modified +2 −2
doc/src/sgml/ref/rollback_to.sgml modified +2 −2
doc/src/sgml/ref/select.sgml modified +3 −3
doc/src/sgml/release.sgml modified +3 −3
doc/src/sgml/rules.sgml modified +2 −2
doc/src/sgml/sources.sgml modified +5 −5
doc/src/sgml/spi.sgml modified +2 −2
doc/src/sgml/sql.sgml modified +2 −2
doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml modified +2 −2
doc/src/sgml/typeconv.sgml modified +3 −3
doc/src/sgml/xfunc.sgml modified +2 −2
doc/src/sgml/xoper.sgml modified +2 −2
src/backend/access/gist/gistxlog.c modified +2 −2
src/backend/access/hash/hashscan.c modified +2 −2
src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtxlog.c modified +2 −2
src/backend/access/transam/xact.c modified +2 −2
src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c modified +3 −3
src/backend/catalog/aclchk.c modified +2 −2
src/backend/catalog/dependency.c modified +2 −2
src/backend/catalog/index.c modified +2 −2
src/backend/catalog/namespace.c modified +2 −2
src/backend/commands/cluster.c modified +3 −3
src/backend/commands/comment.c modified +6 −6
src/backend/commands/dbcommands.c modified +2 −2
src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c modified +2 −2
src/backend/commands/opclasscmds.c modified +3 −3
src/backend/commands/portalcmds.c modified +2 −2
src/backend/commands/schemacmds.c modified +2 −2
src/backend/commands/sequence.c modified +3 −3
src/backend/commands/tablespace.c modified +2 −2
src/backend/commands/user.c modified +3 −3
src/backend/commands/vacuum.c modified +7 −7
src/backend/executor/execQual.c modified +2 −2
src/backend/optimizer/plan/initsplan.c modified +3 −3
src/backend/optimizer/util/clauses.c modified +2 −2
src/backend/parser/analyze.c modified +12 −12
src/backend/parser/gram.y modified +2 −2
src/backend/parser/parse_agg.c modified +2 −2
src/backend/parser/parse_clause.c modified +4 −4
src/backend/parser/parse_func.c modified +4 −4
src/backend/parser/parse_oper.c modified +3 −3
src/backend/port/dynloader/aix.c modified +2 −2
src/backend/regex/rege_dfa.c modified +2 −2
src/backend/rewrite/rewriteDefine.c modified +2 −2
src/backend/rewrite/rewriteHandler.c modified +2 −2
src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c modified +2 −2
src/backend/storage/lmgr/lock.c modified +5 −5
src/backend/utils/adt/genfile.c modified +2 −2
src/backend/utils/adt/int8.c modified +2 −2
src/backend/utils/adt/int.c modified +2 −2
src/backend/utils/fmgr/funcapi.c modified +2 −2
src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c modified +2 −2
src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c modified +3 −3
src/bin/initdb/initdb.c modified +4 −4
src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c modified +3 −3
src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_archiver.c modified +2 −2
src/bin/pg_resetxlog/pg_resetxlog.c modified +2 −2
src/bin/psql/startup.c modified +2 −2
src/include/regex/regerrs.h modified +2 −2
src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/ecpg.c modified +3 −3
src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/preproc.y modified +2 −2
src/interfaces/libpq/win32.c modified +3 −3
src/pl/plperl/plperl.c modified +3 −3
src/pl/plpgsql/src/gram.y modified +2 −2
src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_comp.c modified +2 −2
src/pl/plpython/plpython.c modified +6 −6
src/pl/tcl/pltcl.c modified +2 −2
src/test/examples/testlo.c modified +7 −7
src/test/regress/expected/alter_table.out modified +1 −1
src/test/regress/expected/create_view.out modified +2 −2
src/test/regress/expected/geometry.out modified +1 −1
src/test/regress/expected/horology.out modified +1 −1
src/test/regress/expected/privileges.out modified +1 −1
src/test/regress/expected/rangefuncs.out modified +1 −1
src/test/regress/expected/time.out modified +1 −1
src/test/regress/expected/timetz.out modified +1 −1
src/test/regress/expected/transactions.out modified +3 −3
src/test/regress/expected/triggers.out modified +1 −1
src/test/regress/pg_regress.c modified +3 −3
src/test/regress/regress.c modified +4 −4
src/test/thread/thread_test.c modified +2 −2
src/timezone/zic.c modified +7 −7
src/tools/entab/entab.c modified +2 −2