Re: regression test "strings" failure.

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk
Cc: hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 1998-02-04T02:33:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm getting the following failure in the "strings" regression test:-
> 
> ======   strings   ======
> 15c15
> < ERROR:  func_get_detail: function text(bpchar) does not exist
> ---
> > ERROR:  : function text(bpchar) does not exist
> 17c17
> < ERROR:  func_get_detail: function text(varchar) does not exist
> ---
> > ERROR:  : function text(varchar) does not exist
> 
> This message comes from a call to  func_error() but the 1st arg to the
> call has changed from "func_get_detail" to "".
> 
> I can only think this change is deliberate, but why.
> 
> All the code is in backend/parser/parse_func.c

Yes, I felt that the message, "function text(bpchar) does not exist",
was pretty clear without giving them a funny function name to confuse
them.

-- 
Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us