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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:21:46 +0800
From: Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>
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To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: SQL Function Slowness, 8.3.0
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au> writes:
>   
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>     
>>> Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au> writes:
>>>       
>>>> Speaking of this sort of support tool, what I personally often wish for 
>>>> is unique error message identifiers that can be looked up (say, with a 
>>>> web form) or a way to un/re-translate localized messages.
>>>>         
>>> The VERBOSE option already gives an exact pointer into the backend
>>> sources...
>>>
>>>       
>> The trouble is getting people to use it.
>>     
>
> Sure, but what's your point?  They won't provide a unique message
> identifier without being pushed, either.  (No, having such a thing
> displayed by default isn't going to happen.)
Indeed. I was thinking of something like that appearing in default error 
messages, otherwise I agree it'd be useless. It's just casual 
speculation anyway, bought on by the previous discussion and thinking 
about the fact that when working under Windows I actually find the VC++ 
`C' error codes _useful_.

I'm more interested in re-translating messages, which I'll be having a 
bash at shortly. It's hardly important either (it's often possible to 
just figure it out given the context, or use the horribly mangled result 
from google translate to guess) but might be handy if it proves easy to 
put together.

--
Craig Ringer