Re: [HACKERS] Re: regression test "strings" failure.

Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>

From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: emkxp01@mtcc.demon.co.uk, hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-02-05T03:36:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I'm getting the following failure in the "strings" regression test:-
> > 
> > ======   strings   ======
> > 15c15
> > < ERROR:  func_get_detail: function text(bpchar) does not exist
> > ---
> > > ERROR:  : function text(bpchar) does not exist
> > 17c17
> > < ERROR:  func_get_detail: function text(varchar) does not exist
> > ---
> > > ERROR:  : function text(varchar) does not exist
> > 
> > This message comes from a call to  func_error() but the 1st arg to the
> > call has changed from "func_get_detail" to "".
> > 
> > I can only think this change is deliberate, but why.
> > 
> > All the code is in backend/parser/parse_func.c
> 
> Yes, I felt that the message, "function text(bpchar) does not exist",
> was pretty clear without giving them a funny function name to confuse
> them.

	Oops...removed and also removed the 'caller' variable to
func_error...will do a clean compile tonight and make sure there are
'mis-prototypes' as a result of change...

Marc G. Fournier                                
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org