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Re: and it's not a bunny rabbit, either

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-01-01T22:21:38Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On lör, 2011-01-01 at 00:05 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
>> Yeah, and I still believe that.  I'm having difficulty coming up with
>> a workable approach, though.
>
> I don't see anything wrong with having 20 or 30 messages of variants of
>
> "foo cannot be used on bar"
>
> without placeholders.

Well, that's OK with me.  It seems a little grotty, but manageably so.
 Questions:

1. Should we try to include the name of the object?  If so, how?

2. Can we have a variant with an SQL-command-fragment parameter?

%s cannot be used on views
where %s might be CLUSTER, DROP COLUMN, etc.

-- 
Robert Haas
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