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From: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
To: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Subject: Re: Upgrading the backend's error-message infrastructure
Date: 13 Mar 2003 21:58:21 -0500
Message-ID: <1047610701.359.1861.camel@tokyo> (raw)
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On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 21:48, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> > Is there any benefit to having this over just including an index of
> > error codes in the documentation?

> yes, it makes it script-able

What need would you have for it to be script-able? The backend will
return the error text whenever it returns an error code -- in what
situation would a client app have the error code but not the error
message as well?

> and probably more up to date than documentation....

The way to fix that is to keep the documentation up to date, not invent
pseudo-documentation.

Cheers,

Neil

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