From 8b4ff8b6a14096a28910fbff3d485f30dcb9a637 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 19:10:30 +0000 Subject: 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". --- src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c') diff --git a/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c b/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c index 4fad4a5cab3..a5967454afd 100644 --- a/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c +++ b/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ * * * IDENTIFICATION - * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c,v 1.160 2007/01/05 22:19:44 momjian Exp $ + * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c,v 1.161 2007/02/01 19:10:28 momjian Exp $ * *------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ @@ -1079,7 +1079,7 @@ ValidatePgVersion(const char *path) path), errdetail("File \"%s\" does not contain valid data.", full_path), - errhint("You may need to initdb."))); + errhint("You might need to initdb."))); FreeFile(file); -- cgit v1.2.3