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Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 10:38:25 -0800
From: Dennis Gearon <gearond@cvc.net>
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To: muhammad umar <whiplash77_77@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Suggestion
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maybe he's a little vitrolic, but the error reporting could be MUCH better. 
Seems like the parse tree should be able to show where the error is.

muhammad umar wrote:
> hello,
> im using PostgreSQL 7.3.1 on i686-pc-linux-gnu,
> compiled by GCC 2.96.
> i have a suggestion for the name of this DBMS, and
> that it should not be PostgreSQL but it should be
> PregreSQL, as im feeling its a DBMS that perhaps might
> be used 100 years ago,,proof for this is its
> techniques for showing errors that if we have a 1400
> lines sql query contain some error,,it give error as "
> parse error at or near <some column name>" ,,now if
> that column is used at several places ,,we might have
> to browse the whole of the cream.......
> this is one of example of the limit of stupidity this
> DBMS having,,,
> this used to waste the time that should be spent in
> development...so consider changing the name of this
> stupid DBMS,,
> 
> regards
> Muhammad Umar Liaquat
> Database Administrator
> Vigilant Systems Limited.
> 
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