X-Original-To: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org Received: from spampd.localdomain (postgresql.org [64.49.215.8]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9EE0476367; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 14:15:21 -0500 (EST) Received: from snoopy.oit.edu (snoopy.OIT.EDU [140.211.135.12]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4C95476360; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 14:15:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from cvc.net (purvine-141-62.oit.edu [140.211.141.62]) by snoopy.oit.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9/OIT-4.0) with ESMTP id h33JFCGM012319; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:15:15 -0800 Message-ID: <3E8C88A7.2000906@cvc.net> Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 11:16:55 -0800 From: Dennis Gearon Reply-To: gearond@cvc.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gearond@cvc.net Cc: muhammad umar , pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org, pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Suggestion References: <20030331105002.14648.qmail@web41110.mail.yahoo.com> <3E8C7FA1.7090206@cvc.net> In-Reply-To: <3E8C7FA1.7090206@cvc.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-38.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_01,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) X-Archive-Number: 200304/39 X-Sequence-Number: 5812 I stand corrected, after reading tom's post about 7.3.2. Error reporting to the point of failure in the querry is COOL, thanks to all who worked on that. I will have to bug my provider to install the latest version. Dennis Gearon wrote: > 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 " ,,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. >> >> __________________________________________________ >> Do you Yahoo!? >> Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! >> http://platinum.yahoo.com >> >> >> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- >> TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate >> subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your >> message can get through to the mailing list cleanly >> > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html >