David Fetter wrote:
> 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.
If you start using urls in error messages, it might be helpful to point
everything at a single url and only change the query_string, maybe....
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/?err_id
Not sure if err_id is the correct value for the query_string, but I'm
sure something like the above would simply/centralize management.
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