From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | The may/can/might business |
Date: | 2007-02-01 20:19:34 |
Message-ID: | 23985.1170361174@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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< errmsg("aggregate function calls cannot be nested")));
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> errmsg("aggregate function calls may not be nested")));
I don't think that this is an improvement, or even correct English.
You have changed a message that states that an action is logically
impossible into one that implies we are arbitrarily refusing to let
the user do something that *could* be done, if only we'd let him.
There is relevant material in the message style guidelines, section
45.3.8: it says that "cannot open file "%s" ... indicates that the
functionality of opening the named file does not exist at all in the
program, or that it's conceptually impossible."
regards, tom lane
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