Re: improve CREATE EXTENSION error message - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bossart, Nathan
Subject Re: improve CREATE EXTENSION error message
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Msg-id BE84F5E3-2227-4BB3-A02A-1E5490C892FD@amazon.com
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In response to Re: improve CREATE EXTENSION error message  (Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>)
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On 11/29/21, 1:32 PM, "Daniel Gustafsson" <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
>> On 29 Nov 2021, at 22:02, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I'm not quite satisfied with the "on the system" wording, but I'm
>> not sure of what would be better.  I agree that we can't just say
>> "is not installed", because people will confuse that with whether
>> it is installed within the database.
>
> That's a good point, the hint is targeting users who might not even know that
> an extension needs to be physically and separately installed on the machine
> before it can be installed in their database; so maybe using "installed" here
> isn't entirely helpful at all.  That being said I'm at a loss for a more
> suitable word, "available" perhaps?

I was just thinking the same thing.  I used "available" in v2, which
is attached.

Nathan


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