Re: Qualified tables in error messages - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Qualified tables in error messages
Date
Msg-id 9909.1061400111@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Qualified tables in error messages  ("Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> Why not wrap all 'identifier' outputs in a call to the quoting function, so
> the above message would in fact appear as:
> table schema.foo does not exist
> but with a space in it it would appear like this:
> table "schema 2".foo does not exist

This doesn't conform to the message style guidelines we agreed to,
which specify quoting of user identifiers in messages.  I think the
guidelines are correct on this point --- consider for instancetable exists does not exist
which could easily be a tad confusing...
        regards, tom lane


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