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Update reference 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".
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Bruce Momjian
2007-01-31 23:26:05 +00:00
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$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/ecpg-ref.sgml,v 1.31 2006/09/16 00:30:18 momjian Exp $
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/ecpg-ref.sgml,v 1.32 2007/01/31 23:26:03 momjian Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
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<term><option>-C <replaceable>mode</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Set a compatibility mode. <replaceable>mode</replaceable> may
Set a compatibility mode. <replaceable>mode</replaceable> can
be <literal>INFORMIX</literal> or
<literal>INFORMIX_SE</literal>.
</para>