On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 at 20:58, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> I found only one nitpicky bug: in
> findDefaultOnlyColumns, the test must be bms_is_empty(default_only_cols)
> not just default_only_cols == NULL, or it will fail to fall out early
> as intended when the first row contains some DEFAULTs but later rows
> don't.
Ah, good point. Thanks for fixing that.
> > I haven't touched the existing error messages. I think that's a
> > subject for a separate patch.
>
> Fair. After looking around a bit, I think that getting an error
> cursor as I'd speculated about is more trouble than it's worth.
> For starters, we'd have to pass down the query string into this
> code, and there might be some ticklish issues about whether a given
> chunk of parsetree came from that string or from some rule or view.
> However, I think that just adjusting the error string would be
> helpful, as attached.
+1
> (I'm also wondering why the second case is generic ERRCODE_SYNTAX_ERROR
> and not ERRCODE_GENERATED_ALWAYS. Didn't change it here, though.)
I can't see any reason for it to be different, and
ERRCODE_GENERATED_ALWAYS seems like the right code to use for both
cases.
Regards,
Dean
