Re: Request for Implementation of Custom Error Messages for CHECK Constraints - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Request for Implementation of Custom Error Messages for CHECK Constraints
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Msg-id 739719.1746921527@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Request for Implementation of Custom Error Messages for CHECK Constraints  ("Miguel Ferreira" <miguelmbferreira@gmail.com>)
Responses RE: Request for Implementation of Custom Error Messages for CHECK Constraints
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"Miguel Ferreira" <miguelmbferreira@gmail.com> writes:
> I propose extending the syntax of the ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT
> statement (and potentially CREATE TABLE) to allow for the
> specification of a custom error message for each CHECK constraint.

Why don't you just choose better names for your constraints?

I'd argue that the proposed change might actually be a net loss
for usability, if it entirely obscures the fact that what happened
was a check-constraint violation.

It's also not very clear why we'd stop with check constraints,
if the desire is to get rid of database-produced error messages
in favor of something that somebody likes better.

            regards, tom lane



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