Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres Devs : Wouldn't changing the select limit
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: lockhart@fourpalms.org
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>,
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Jochem van Dieten <jochemd@oli.tudelft.nl>, Hackers List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-10-22T20:07:44Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org> writes: > I'm with Peter on this one. I'd like to *not* clutter up the code and > error reporting with hints and suggestions which may or may not be to > the point. > We *should* have docs which list error messages and possible solutions, > and throwing that info into code is a poor second choice imho. While you have a point in the abstract, a big difficulty is that the docs never track the code with any accuracy. Look at the "Outputs" portions of our existing reference pages. To the extent that they describe possible errors at all, the information is a sad joke: out of date in most cases, certainly incomplete in every case. Just last week I was thinking that we should rip all that stuff out, rather than pretend it is or ever will be accurate. regards, tom lane