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

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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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Bruce Momjian
2007-02-01 19:10:30 +00:00
parent baaec74c5a
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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/sql.sgml,v 1.44 2007/01/31 20:56:19 momjian Exp $ -->
<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/sql.sgml,v 1.45 2007/02/01 19:10:24 momjian Exp $ -->
<chapter id="sql-intro">
<title>SQL</title>
@@ -1557,7 +1557,7 @@ SELECT *
<para>
If we want to know the highest average part price among all our
suppliers, we can't write MAX(AVG(PRICE)), but we can write:
suppliers, we cannot write MAX(AVG(PRICE)), but we can write:
<programlisting>
SELECT MAX(subtable.avgprice)