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Re: improve CREATE EXTENSION error message

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com>
Cc: Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>, "pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Date: 2022-01-11T19:22:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
"Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com> writes:
> Okay, the message looks like this in v5:

>         postgres=# CREATE EXTENSION does_not_exist;
>         ERROR:  extension "does_not_exist" is not available
>         DETAIL:  Could not open extension control file "/usr/local/pgsql/share/extension/does_not_exist.control": No such file or directory.
>         HINT:  The extension must first be installed on the system where PostgreSQL is running.

Nobody complained about that wording, so pushed.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Improve error message for missing extension.