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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2007-02-01 19:10:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2007-02-01 19:10:30 +0000 |
| commit | 8b4ff8b6a14096a28910fbff3d485f30dcb9a637 (patch) | |
| tree | c250f17f4a8e3bfee442970a0666431ed8310650 /src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/ecpg.c | |
| parent | baaec74c5a953032049015883802660edd821cac (diff) | |
Wording cleanup for error messages. Also change can't -> cannot.
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".
Diffstat (limited to 'src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/ecpg.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/ecpg.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/ecpg.c b/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/ecpg.c index c8b2327289b..5352f7f86cd 100644 --- a/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/ecpg.c +++ b/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/ecpg.c @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -/* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/ecpg.c,v 1.96 2007/01/12 10:00:13 meskes Exp $ */ +/* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/ecpg.c,v 1.97 2007/02/01 19:10:29 momjian Exp $ */ /* New main for ecpg, the PostgreSQL embedded SQL precompiler. */ /* (C) Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org> Feb 5th, 1998 */ @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ help(const char *progname) printf(" -c automatically generate C code from embedded SQL code;\n" " currently this works for EXEC SQL TYPE\n"); printf(" -C MODE set compatibility mode;\n" - " MODE may be one of \"INFORMIX\", \"INFORMIX_SE\"\n"); + " MODE can be one of \"INFORMIX\", \"INFORMIX_SE\"\n"); #ifdef YYDEBUG printf(" -d generate parser debug output\n"); #endif @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ help(const char *progname) printf(" -I DIRECTORY search DIRECTORY for include files\n"); printf(" -o OUTFILE write result to OUTFILE\n"); printf(" -r OPTION specify runtime behaviour;\n" - " OPTION may only be \"no_indicator\"\n"); + " OPTION can only be \"no_indicator\"\n"); printf(" -t turn on autocommit of transactions\n"); printf(" --help show this help, then exit\n"); printf(" --regression run in regression testing mode\n"); |