From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: protodef@gmail.com
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: optionally schema-qualified for table_name
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 21:27:57 -0400
Message-ID: <20200323012757.GC2031@momjian.us> (raw)
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On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 06:20:04PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 03:05:01PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I don't really think this is an improvement, mainly because that
> >> error message is inventing a notation that we do not use in any
> >> other error message.
>
> > What do you suggest? The current message is:
>
> > Specify OWNED BY table.column or OWNED BY NONE.
>
> Yeah, and I think that's okay as-is, or at least we can't make it better
> without fairly whole-sale changes of our documentation practices.
> The fact that a table name can be schema-qualified is usually implicit,
> and I don't see why this place cries out for making it explicit
> more than other places. You could as well complain that there's
> nothing explicit here about double-quoting practices.
OK, I will do just the documentation patch for this then.
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