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Re: Error messages/logging (Was: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] 'pgsql/src/backend/parser gram.y parse_oper.c')

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> — 1998-01-05T04:43:21Z

> 
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > 
> > > ABORT means that transaction is ABORTed.
> > > Will ERROR mean something else ?
> > > Why should we use two different flag-words for the same thing ?
> > > Note, that I don't object against using ERROR, but against using two words.
> > 
> > I wanted two words to distinguish between user errors like a mis-spelled
> > field name, and internal errors like btree failure messages.
> > 
> > Make sense?
> 
> No, for me. Do Informix, Oracle, etc use two words ?
> What benefit of special "in-parser-error" word for user - in any case
> user will read error message itself to understand what caused error.

OK, if no one likes my idea in the next day, I will make them all ERROR.

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Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us