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Re: [INTERFACES] Upgrading the backend's error-message infrastructure

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org, <pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 2003-03-18T14:35:38Z
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Tom Lane writes:

> Hmm.  I can't see any advantage to these over assigning our own codes;
> ours would have at least *some* mnemonic value, rather than being chosen
> completely at random ...

One advantage is that interfaces that are required to use these constants
would not need an internal translation table.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net