Re: Enhanced error message to include hint messages for redundant options error

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Cc: "houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com" <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>, Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
Date: 2021-05-10T21:17:14Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2021-May-10, vignesh C wrote:

> That sounds fine to me, Attached v6 patch which has the changes for the same.

What about defining a function (maybe a static inline function in
defrem.h) that is marked noreturn and receives the DefElem and
optionally pstate, and throws the error?  I think that would avoid the
patch's need to have half a dozen copies of the "duplicate_error:" label
and ereport stanza.

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Álvaro Herrera                            39°49'30"S 73°17'W



Commits

  1. Improve reporting of "conflicting or redundant options" errors.

  2. Refactor function parse_subscription_options.