Re: Upgrading the backend's error-message infrastructure

> 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?

It's quick and easy, especially when there's thousands of error codes.
Ideally, the pg_error app and the error code documentation should be
automatically generated...

You could have a built-in function: pg_print_error(text) returns text, then
the pg_error command line program could just call that, plus the user could
check up errors from within postgresql as well...

Chris