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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/pg_ctl-ref.sgml,v 1.37 2007/01/11 02:30:01 momjian Exp $
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_ctl-ref.sgml,v 1.38 2007/01/31 23:26:04 momjian Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
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<listitem>
<para>
Specifies the shutdown mode. <replaceable>mode</replaceable>
may be <literal>smart</literal>, <literal>fast</literal>, or
can be <literal>smart</literal>, <literal>fast</literal>, or
<literal>immediate</literal>, or the first letter of one of
these three.
</para>
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<title>Notes</title>
<para>
Waiting for complete start is not a well-defined operation and may
Waiting for complete start is not a well-defined operation and might
fail if access control is set up so that a local client cannot
connect without manual interaction (e.g., password authentication). For
additional connection variables, see <xref linkend="libpq-envars">,