Re: enhanced error fields

Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <peter@2ndquadrant.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Date: 2012-12-30T14:57:15Z
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2012/12/30 Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>:
> * Pavel Stehule (pavel.stehule@gmail.com) wrote:
>> so - cannot be a solution define CONSTRAINT_TABLE field - constaint
>> names in table are unique.
>
> Adding a table column, and a schema column, would be ideal.  Those would
> all be part of the PK and not null'able, but then we wouldn't
> necessairly always return all that information- that's the situation
> that we've been talking about.
>
>> sure there is a problem with long names, but I am thinking so it has
>> solution - when constraint has no name, then we can try to generate
>> name, and when this name is longer than 63 chars, then CREATE
>> STATEMENT fails and users should be define name manually - this
>> feature should be disabled by guc due compatibility issues.
>
> CREATE doesn't fail if the name is too long today, it truncates it
> instead.  I continue to feel that's also the wrong thing to do.

probably it is far to ideal - but I have not any feedback about
related problems in production.

Regards

Pavel Stehule

>
>         Thanks,
>
>                 Stephen