Re: primary key error message - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: primary key error message
Date
Msg-id 1264109056.509.10.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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In response to Re: primary key error message  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: primary key error message  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On tor, 2010-01-21 at 15:47 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> > Here is a small patch that changes the error message
> >
> >    duplicate key value violates unique constraint "%s"
> >
> > into
> >
> >    duplicate key value violates primary key "%s"
> >
> > when the constraint is in fact a primary key.
> >
> > Comments?
> 
> Why bother?

Because unique constraints and primary keys are different things and it
would be slightly less confusing that way.

> And why bother now, when we're in the middle of the last
> CommitFest and trying to move toward a release?

Are you saying we can't discuss anything new during the commit fest?




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