Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PATCHES] Patch for more readable parse error messages - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PATCHES] Patch for more readable parse error messages
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Msg-id 200002242350.SAA21853@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PATCHES] Patch for more readable parse error messages  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PATCHES] Patch for more readable parse error messages  (Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>)
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> In any case, I believe that the actual error message string should be
> assembled in the front-end. I'm not too fond of the idea of letting
> clients parse out the interesting parts of an error out of a blob of text.
> 
> Comments? Anyone interested? This would be very dear to my heart so I'd be
> very willing to spend a lot of time on it.

Vadim strongly believes in error mesage numbers.  We certainly should do
better, if only to print a code before the error code or something.

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