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Re: BUG #15572: Misleading message reported by "Drop function operation" on DB with functions having same name

David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Ash M <makmarath@hotmail.com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-02-17T22:17:52Z
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On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 at 16:09, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
> FWIW, it makes me a bit uneasy to change this function signature in
> back-branches if that's the intention as I suspect that it gets used
> in extensions..  For HEAD that's fine of course.

I wondered about this too and questioned Tom about it above.  There
was no response.

I just assumed Tom didn't think it was worth fiddling with in back-branches.

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Commits

  1. Improve error reporting for DROP FUNCTION/PROCEDURE/AGGREGATE/ROUTINE.