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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2007-01-31 20:56:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2007-01-31 20:56:20 +0000 |
| commit | a134ee33794d7066143f5587d9c36bcca62bfc39 (patch) | |
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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.
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/gist.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/gist.sgml index 2418c72aa2a..a02da6a9f65 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/gist.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/gist.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/gist.sgml,v 1.27 2006/10/23 18:10:31 petere Exp $ --> +<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/gist.sgml,v 1.28 2007/01/31 20:56:17 momjian Exp $ --> <chapter id="GiST"> <title>GiST Indexes</title> @@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ Usually, replay of the WAL log is sufficient to restore the integrity of a GiST index following a database crash. However, there are some corner cases in which the index state is not fully rebuilt. The index - will still be functionally correct, but there may be some performance + will still be functionally correct, but there might be some performance degradation. When this occurs, the index can be repaired by <command>VACUUM</>ing its table, or by rebuilding the index using <command>REINDEX</>. In some cases a plain <command>VACUUM</> is |