Re: Better error message for select_common_type() - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Gregory Stark
Subject Re: Better error message for select_common_type()
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Msg-id 87hcr63a36.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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In response to Re: Better error message for select_common_type()  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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"Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> For the VALUES case, the suggestion of "row" and "column" terminology
> seems the right thing, but for UNION it would be better to use "branch"
> perhaps ("row" certainly seems misleading).  How can we make that work
> without indulging in untranslatable keyword-insertion?

Hm, I guess the SQL spec terminology in both cases would be "table
expression".

--  Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB          http://www.enterprisedb.com



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