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Update reference 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".
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Bruce Momjian
2007-01-31 23:26:05 +00:00
parent bc799fab2b
commit e81c138e18
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<!--
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/delete.sgml,v 1.28 2006/09/16 00:30:18 momjian Exp $
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/delete.sgml,v 1.29 2007/01/31 23:26:03 momjian Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ DELETE FROM [ ONLY ] <replaceable class="PARAMETER">table</replaceable> [ [ AS ]
<listitem>
<para>
An expression to be computed and returned by the <command>DELETE</>
command after each row is deleted. The expression may use any
command after each row is deleted. The expression can use any
column names of the <replaceable class="PARAMETER">table</replaceable>
or table(s) listed in <literal>USING</>.
Write <literal>*</> to return all columns.
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ DELETE <replaceable class="parameter">count</replaceable>
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> lets you reference columns of
other tables in the <literal>WHERE</> condition by specifying the
other tables in the <literal>USING</literal> clause. For example,
to delete all films produced by a given producer, one might do
to delete all films produced by a given producer, one can do
<programlisting>
DELETE FROM films USING producers
WHERE producer_id = producers.id AND producers.name = 'foo';