Re: pgsql: Improve error messages for bytea decoding failures. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org> writes:
>> Improve error messages for bytea decoding failures.
>
> Per style guide, errhints should be capitalized full sentences, ie
>
> - errhint("input data is missing padding, truncated, or otherwise corrupted")));
> + errhint("Input data is missing padding, truncated, or otherwise corrupted.")));

Oops.

> Also, it's unwise to use %c on a value you aren't sure is an ASCII
> character; that's likely to produce an invalidly-encoded error message,
> which will *not* be an improvement of the user experience.

Yeah, I was a little worried about that.  But I noticed that in the
same file we already had this:

        ereport(ERROR,
                (errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE),
                 errmsg("invalid hexadecimal digit: \"%c\"", c)));

So I figured it must be OK.  If it's not, we should fix both places.

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