From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
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: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 21:01:01 -0600
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--On Thursday, March 13, 2003 21:58:21 -0500 Neil Conway
<neilc@samurai.com> wrote:
> 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?
PHP, returning just the code to a user, and wanting to, later, return the
full text
in a log-analysis, just as one example.
>
>> 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.
machine readable Error messages and Codes are ALWAYS a good thing, IMNSHO.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neil
>
> --
> Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> || PGP Key ID: DB3C29FC
>
>
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