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Subject: Re: Upgrading the backend's error-message infrastructure
From: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
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On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 21:16, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> Would it be possible to do a command line app?
> 
> bash$ pg_error 1200D
> Severity: ERROR
> Message: Division by zero
> Detail:
> Hint: Modify statement to prevent zeros appearing in denominators.

Is there any benefit to having this over just including an index of
error codes in the documentation?

Cheers,

Neil

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