At 21:41 15/10/00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au> writes:
>> NOTICE: Caution: beyond this point, a mis-spelled attribute name will
>> corrupt your database
>
>How many distinct kinds of typos do you think the message should
>mention? I'd think something like that would be more confusing
>than not, since it implies that only some kinds of errors are bad.
Er...it was a joke.
>Personally, I'd vote for disallowing ALTER RENAME inside transaction
>blocks until we can do it safely.
I agree totally. The bogus error message was to highlight the fragility of
allowing rename in TX blocks.
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