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From Peter Geoghegan
Subject Re: Doing better at HINTing an appropriate column within errorMissingColumn()
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In response to Re: Doing better at HINTing an appropriate column within errorMissingColumn()  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>)
Responses Re: Doing better at HINTing an appropriate column within errorMissingColumn()  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> wrote:
> I was worried about the common case where a
> column name is misspelled that would otherwise be ambiguous, which is
> why that shows a HINT while the single RTE case doesn't

To be clear - I mean a HINT with two suggestions rather than just one.
If there are 3 or more equally distant suggestions (even if they're
all from different RTEs) we also give no HINT in the proposed patch.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan

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