Update documentation on may/can/might:

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

Commit: a134ee33794d7066143f5587d9c36bcca62bfc39
Author: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: 2007-01-31T20:56:20Z
Releases: 8.3.0
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.

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