Re: [HACKERS] Win32 WEXITSTATUS too - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Win32 WEXITSTATUS too
Date
Msg-id 200701221954.l0MJsdP26083@momjian.us
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > > Tom Lane wrote:
> > >> It should not be there at all.  Do you see URLs in any of our other
> > >> error messages?
> >
> > > Sure, ideally, but how else can we give information about that hex
> > > value?
> >
> > It's not the responsibility of that error message to tell someone to
> > go look up the error number in Microsoft documentation.  If they're
> > clueful enough to make any sense of the number beyond the strerror
> > translation we already provide, then they already know where to look.
> >
> > Even if it were the responsibility of the error message to suggest this,
> > a URL seems far too transient.
>
> I agree; more so given that the URL points to the Wine project pages.
> And it's not user documentation, but source code, which makes it less
> appropriate.

OK, so what suggestion do you have?  I just proposed a few of them in my
previous email.

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