Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: add error message in backend/catalog/index.c - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Proposal: add error message in backend/catalog/index.c
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Msg-id 2fd303ec-826a-7c9f-c092-5c282d5d50f6@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to [HACKERS] Proposal: add error message in backend/catalog/index.c  (Ioseph Kim <pgsql-kr@postgresql.kr>)
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On 12/13/16 1:15 AM, Ioseph Kim wrote:
> I propose to append an error message when index name and table name are
> same.
> 
> 
> example:
> 
> postgres@postgres=# create table t (a int not null, constraint t primary
> key (a));
> ERROR:  relation "t" already exists

The code to detect that would probably be fairly complicated for such a
rare case.

A more principled approach might be to create an error context for the
index creation so that you can tell what is going on when the error happens.

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Peter Eisentraut              http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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