From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: 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: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 21:35:25 +0100
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On 2020-03-23 02:27, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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.
The same criticism applies to the documentation patch, I think. We
don't usually make the schema part explicit.
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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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