Re: superuser() shortcuts - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: superuser() shortcuts
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Msg-id CA+TgmoY20_KJ-fbP_qNNHEqtfy+9r5oewCwXXJFb5hLLLOnUyA@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: superuser() shortcuts  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: superuser() shortcuts  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
> * Tom Lane (tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote:
>> In the context at hand, I think most of the messages in question are
>> currently phrased like "must be superuser to do X".  I'd be fine with
>> changing that to "permission denied to do X", but not to just
>> "permission denied".
>
> Apologies for the terseness of my (earlier) reply.  This is exactly what
> I'm suggesting.  What was in the patch was this change:
>
> ! ERROR:  must be superuser or replication role to use replication slots
>
> ---
>
> ! ERROR:  permission denied to use replication slots
> ! HINT:  You must be superuser or replication role to use replication slots.

Your proposed change takes two lines to convey the same amount of
information that we are currently conveying in one line.  How is that
better?

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Robert Haas
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