Re: and it's not a bunny rabbit, either - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: and it's not a bunny rabbit, either
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Msg-id 1293724725-sup-2027@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: and it's not a bunny rabbit, either  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: and it's not a bunny rabbit, either  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of jue dic 30 12:47:42 -0300 2010:

> After further thought, I think it makes sense to change this around a
> bit and create a family of functions that can be invoked like this:
> 
> void check_relation_for_FEATURE_support(Relation rel);
> 
> ...where FEATURE is constraint, trigger, rule, index, etc.  The
> function will be defined to throw an error if the relation isn't of a
> type that can support the named feature.  The error message will be of
> the form:
> 
> constraints can only be used on tables
> triggers can be used only on tables and views
> etc.

So this will create a combinatorial explosion of strings to translate?
I liked the other idea because the number of translatable strings was
kept within reasonable bounds.

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