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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
commit 8b4ff8b6a1
103 changed files with 274 additions and 274 deletions
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src/timezone/zic.c
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@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
* 1996-06-05 by Arthur David Olson (arthur_david_olson@nih.gov).
*
* IDENTIFICATION
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/timezone/zic.c,v 1.20 2007/01/26 17:45:42 neilc Exp $
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/timezone/zic.c,v 1.21 2007/02/01 19:10:30 momjian Exp $
*/
#include "postgres.h"
@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ dolink(const char *fromfile, const char *tofile)
const char *e = strerror(errno);
(void) fprintf(stderr,
_("%s: Can't link from %s to %s: %s\n"),
_("%s: Cannot link from %s to %s: %s\n"),
progname, fromname, toname, e);
(void) exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
@ -831,7 +831,7 @@ infile(const char *name)
{
const char *e = strerror(errno);
(void) fprintf(stderr, _("%s: Can't open %s: %s\n"),
(void) fprintf(stderr, _("%s: Cannot open %s: %s\n"),
progname, name, e);
(void) exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
@ -1566,7 +1566,7 @@ writezone(const char *name)
{
const char *e = strerror(errno);
(void) fprintf(stderr, _("%s: Can't remove %s: %s\n"),
(void) fprintf(stderr, _("%s: Cannot remove %s: %s\n"),
progname, fullname, e);
(void) exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
@ -1578,7 +1578,7 @@ writezone(const char *name)
{
const char *e = strerror(errno);
(void) fprintf(stderr, _("%s: Can't create %s: %s\n"),
(void) fprintf(stderr, _("%s: Cannot create %s: %s\n"),
progname, fullname, e);
(void) exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
@ -1863,7 +1863,7 @@ outzone(const struct zone * zpfirst, int zonecount)
(void) strcpy(startbuf, zp->z_format);
eat(zp->z_filename, zp->z_linenum);
if (*startbuf == '\0')
error(_("can't determine time zone abbreviation to use just after until time"));
error(_("cannot determine time zone abbreviation to use just after until time"));
else
addtt(starttime,
addtype(startoff, startbuf,
@ -2342,7 +2342,7 @@ mkdirs(char *argname)
if (errno != EEXIST || !itsdir(name))
{
(void) fprintf(stderr,
_("%s: Can't create directory %s: %s\n"),
_("%s: Cannot create directory %s: %s\n"),
progname, name, e);
ifree(name);
return -1;