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8 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Bruce Momjian
a134ee3379 Update 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".

Also update two error messages mentioned in the documenation to match.
2007-01-31 20:56:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
32cebaecff Remove emacs info from footer of SGML files. 2006-09-16 00:30:20 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
497b5ad928 Make $PostgreSQL CVS tags consistent for SGML files. 2006-03-10 19:10:50 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut
39dfbe5791 Spellchecking run, final cleanups 2005-11-04 23:14:02 +00:00
Neil Conway
fc8f4bac0e Fix assorted typos in the documentation, and use American spelling
rather than British. Patch from Michael Fuhr.
2005-10-15 20:12:33 +00:00
Neil Conway
9abced035d Fix mistakes in SGML markup. From David Fetter. 2005-03-14 06:49:48 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
2d22f16132 Rename planner stats detail to avoid label confict. 2005-02-27 01:17:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
234d50812c Add documentation on how statistics are used by the planner.
Mark Kirkwood
2005-02-27 00:49:28 +00:00