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Update documentation on may/can/might:

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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".

Also update two error messages mentioned in the documenation to match.
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Bruce Momjian
2007-01-31 20:56:20 +00:00
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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/start.sgml,v 1.43 2006/10/21 23:12:57 tgl Exp $ -->
<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/start.sgml,v 1.44 2007/01/31 20:56:19 momjian Exp $ -->
<chapter id="tutorial-start">
<title>Getting Started</title>
@@ -38,11 +38,11 @@
<para>
If your site administrator has not set things up in the default
way, you may have some more work to do. For example, if the
way, you might have some more work to do. For example, if the
database server machine is a remote machine, you will need to set
the <envar>PGHOST</envar> environment variable to the name of the
database server machine. The environment variable
<envar>PGPORT</envar> may also have to be set. The bottom line is
<envar>PGPORT</envar> might also have to be set. The bottom line is
this: if you try to start an application program and it complains
that it cannot connect to the database, you should consult your
site administrator or, if that is you, the documentation to make
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: permission denied to create database
</para>
<para>
More about <command>createdb</command> and <command>dropdb</command> may
More about <command>createdb</command> and <command>dropdb</command> can
be found in <xref linkend="APP-CREATEDB"> and <xref linkend="APP-DROPDB">
respectively.
</para>