Thread: Re: Error messages --- now that we've got it, do you like

Alvaro Herrera Munoz wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:33:55PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > > Tom, you saw this suggestion, right?
> > 
> > I didn't hear anyone else agreeing with it ...
> 
> Well, if this needs a vote, I'm for something like maximum/default/minimum
> rather than the way it currently is.  Saying "verbosity verbose" or
> "verbosity terse" doesn't feel right, while "verbosity maximum" makes
> sense, to me anyway.

That was my feeling.  Also, I was concerned that non-native English
speakers might not have heard of 'terse', while max/min or off/full
would be more common.

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Bruce Momjian wrote:

>That was my feeling.  Also, I was concerned that non-native English
>speakers might not have heard of 'terse', while max/min or off/full
>would be more common.
>
>  
>
Possibly plenty of "English" speakers, too ;-)

andrew