Re: Mention column name in error messages

On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> > The original intent of that patch tried to cover the case where we insert
> > records
> > made of dozens columns sharing the same type definition, and trying to
> > understand
> > what is going on, at a glance, when we debugged something like this:
> > ...
> > Relying on the cursor seems to be of little help I'm afraid.
>
> Well, it would be an improvement over what we've got now.  Also, a feature
> similar to what I suggested would help in localizing many types of errors
> that have nothing to do with coercion to a target column type.
>

Yes, it's a neat improvement in any case.

-- 
Franck Verrot