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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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Bruce Momjian
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length an authoritative, complete, and formal summary about their
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<productname>PostgreSQL</productname>, in narrative, tutorial, or
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applications is that they can be run on any host, independent of
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