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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/insert.sgml,v 1.34 2006/10/23 18:10:32 petere Exp $
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/insert.sgml,v 1.35 2007/01/31 23:26:04 momjian Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ INSERT INTO <replaceable class="PARAMETER">table</replaceable> [ ( <replaceable
</para>
<para>
The target column names may be listed in any order. If no list of
The target column names can be listed in any order. If no list of
column names is given at all, the default is all the columns of the
table in their declared order; or the first <replaceable>N</> column
names, if there are only <replaceable>N</> columns supplied by the
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ INSERT INTO <replaceable class="PARAMETER">table</replaceable> [ ( <replaceable
<listitem>
<para>
An expression to be computed and returned by the <command>INSERT</>
command after each row is inserted. The expression may use any
command after each row is inserted. The expression can use any
column names of the <replaceable class="PARAMETER">table</replaceable>.
Write <literal>*</> to return all columns of the inserted row(s).
</para>