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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/start_transaction.sgml,v 1.15 2006/09/16 00:30:20 momjian Exp $
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/start_transaction.sgml,v 1.16 2007/01/31 23:26:04 momjian Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ where <replaceable class="parameter">transaction_mode</replaceable> is one of:
issuing a <command>COMMIT</command> after each command that does not
follow <command>START TRANSACTION</> (or <command>BEGIN</command>),
and it is therefore often called <quote>autocommit</>.
Other relational database systems may offer an autocommit feature
Other relational database systems might offer an autocommit feature
as a convenience.
</para>