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

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: and it's not a bunny rabbit, either
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Msg-id 1293803569.19789.6.camel@fsopti579.F-Secure.com
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In response to Re: and it's not a bunny rabbit, either  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On tor, 2010-12-30 at 11:49 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> ISTM there are four things we might potentially want to state in the
> error message: the feature/operation you tried to apply, the name of
> the object you tried to apply it to, the type of that object, and the
> set of object types that the feature/operation will actually work for.

I think the latter should be completely omitted unless it's
exceptionally important.

You can construct pretty silly things down this line:

ERROR:  permission denied for relation "x"
ERROR:  relation "x" does not exist

vs.

ERROR:  you only have permission on relation a, b, c
ERROR:  only the following relations exist: a, b, c




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