Re: event trigger test exception message - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: event trigger test exception message
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Msg-id 20150105010941.GI1457@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to event trigger test exception message  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: event trigger test exception message
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> I don't wish to seem humorless, but I think this should probably be changed:
> 
> root/HEAD/pgsql/src/test/regress/sql/event_trigger.sql:248:  RAISE EXCEPTION
> 'I''m sorry Sir, No Rewrite Allowed.';
> 
> Quite apart from any other reason, the "Sir" does seem a bit sexist - we
> have no idea of the gender of the reader. Probably just 'sorry, no rewrite
> allowed' would suffice.

This seems pointless tinkering to me.  Should I start introducing female
pronouns in test error messages, to measure how much this will annoy my
male conterparts?  This is not a user visible message in any case.

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