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Error messages changes for 7.3?

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
There is discussion on hackers to change certain error message text for
7.3.  The change would be:

    ERROR:  ExecAppend: ...   =>  ERROR:  ExecInsert: ...

and

    ERROR:  ExecReplace: ...  =>  ERROR:  ExecUpdate: ...


APPEND/REPLACE are the old QUEL-language commands, while INSERT/UPDATE
are the SQL ones.

Does such a change in 7.3 cause anyone problems?  We are particularly
interested in people who parse these error strings and don't want them
to change.

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Re: Error messages changes for 7.3?

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
Robert Treat wrote:
> I can imagine this will cause some people headaches, but I can't imagine
> it would cause more pain than the schema support changes are going to
> cause. I would much prefer having to do something like:
>
> find / -type f -print | xargs perl -pe 's/ExecAppend/ExecInsert/g'
>
> rather than digging through client code to make query changes. I can
> definitely see the benefits from an ease of use side, was there
> something else that prompted the change?

Nope, just consistency.

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Re: Error messages changes for 7.3?

From
Robert Treat
Date:
I can imagine this will cause some people headaches, but I can't imagine
it would cause more pain than the schema support changes are going to
cause. I would much prefer having to do something like:

find / -type f -print | xargs perl -pe 's/ExecAppend/ExecInsert/g'

rather than digging through client code to make query changes. I can
definitely see the benefits from an ease of use side, was there
something else that prompted the change?

Robert Treat

On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 23:56, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> There is discussion on hackers to change certain error message text for
> 7.3.  The change would be:
>
>     ERROR:  ExecAppend: ...   =>  ERROR:  ExecInsert: ...
>
> and
>
>     ERROR:  ExecReplace: ...  =>  ERROR:  ExecUpdate: ...
>
>
> APPEND/REPLACE are the old QUEL-language commands, while INSERT/UPDATE
> are the SQL ones.
>
> Does such a change in 7.3 cause anyone problems?  We are particularly
> interested in people who parse these error strings and don't want them
> to change.
>
> --
>   Bruce Momjian                        |  http://candle.pha.pa.us