Re: BUG #6300: duplicate key value violates unique constraint - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: BUG #6300: duplicate key value violates unique constraint
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Msg-id 1322153640-sup-9631@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: BUG #6300: duplicate key value violates unique constraint  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: BUG #6300: duplicate key value violates unique constraint  (Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of jue nov 24 13:14:38 -0300 2011:

> What I think we want to distinguish between is things that are
> PEBKAC/GIGO, and everything else.  In other words, if a particular
> error message can be caused by typing something stupid, unexpected,
> erroneous, or whatever into psql, it's just an error.  But if no
> input, however misguided, should ever cause that symptom, then it's, I
> don't know what the terminology should be, say, a "severe error".

+1

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