Re: Replace run-time error check with assertion

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-05-25T14:51:23Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> In the attached patch, the error message was checking that the 
> structures returned from the parser matched expectations.  That's 
> something we usually use assertions for, not a full user-facing error 
> message.  So I replaced that with an assertion (hidden inside 
> lfirst_node()).

Works for me.  It's certainly silly to use a translatable ereport
rather than elog for this.

Localizing those variables some more looks sane too.

			regards, tom lane



Commits

  1. Replace run-time error check with assertion