Re: Better auth errors from libpq - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David Fetter
Subject Re: Better auth errors from libpq
Date
Msg-id 20080912164528.GN27694@fetter.org
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In response to Re: Better auth errors from libpq  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: Better auth errors from libpq  (Andrew Chernow <ac@esilo.com>)
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On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:30:12PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> >
> >>> The only thing I would say here is that you point the URL to
> >>> current  which will be wrong in one release. Perhaps something
> >>> that pulls the  pgversion macro?
> >>
> >> We don't put URLs in error messages. The hint needs to be a real
> >> sentence.
> >
> > Which is exactly why its the first thing we do when supporting
> > people.  Point them to the URL in the docs.
> 
> Let's add a new field in error reports: errurl()

Excellent idea :)

Cheers,
David.
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