On Jan 21, 2010, at 12:02 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Christensen <david@endpoint.com> writes:
>> Should the error messages between the SHOW cases and the others be
>> consistent ("ERROR: unsupported command" or similar)? It's worth
>> noting that this is only in the psql client, but we could simulate
>> the
>> ereport output from the server.
>
> No. Not unless you want to simulate it to the point of honoring the
> different verbosity settings, which would greatly expand the size of
> the
> patch. We do not try to make the response to "help" look like an
> error
> message, and I don't see the value of doing so here either.
>
> (I think Florian's real problem with the proposed output is that it's
> ugly, which I agree with --- the formatting is strange.)
I'm with you on that one; I tried to address that in the second
revision of the patch. But I'm definitely open to suggestions.
Regards,
David
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David Christensen
End Point Corporation
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