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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: wrong relkind error messages
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 09:09:03 -0400
Message-ID: <18034.1587128943@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bbc54d25-d842-9ff8-2cb4-8bb0c0d34af9@2ndquadrant.com>
References: <20200414230208.GA27948@alvherre.pgsql>
	<10405.1586909753@sss.pgh.pa.us>
	<bbc54d25-d842-9ff8-2cb4-8bb0c0d34af9@2ndquadrant.com>

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> On 2020-04-15 02:15, Tom Lane wrote:
>> In the meantime could we at least say "ALTER TABLE action cannot
>> be performed"?

> We don't know whether ALTER TABLE was the command.  For example, in one 
> of the affected regression test cases, the command is ALTER VIEW.

Maybe just "ALTER action cannot be performed"?  I share Robert's
dislike of being so vague as to just say "action".

			regards, tom lane





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