Re: improve CREATE EXTENSION error message
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>,
Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>,
"pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2021-11-29T22:42:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
"Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com> writes: > Alright, here's v3. In this version, I actually removed the message > about the control file entirely, so now the error message looks like > this: > postgres=# CREATE EXTENSION does_not_exist; > ERROR: extension "does_not_exist" is not available > DETAIL: The extension must first be installed on the system where PostgreSQL is running. > HINT: The pg_available_extensions view lists the extensions that are available for installation. I don't think that HINT is useful at all, and I agree with Chapman that we should still show the filename we tried to look up, just in case there's a path problem or the like. regards, tom lane
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Improve error message for missing extension.
- 6f6943fc94ad 15.0 landed