Re: notice about costly ri checks (2)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>, Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)myrealbox(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: notice about costly ri checks (2)
Date: 2004-03-05 21:55:55
Message-ID: 11681.1078523755@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> writes:
>> Why should we make them guess which column is the problem, when we know
>> it perfectly well?

> As a side question, if there are multiple cross-type conversions in one
> constraint on different column pairs, what do we think the message should
> be? One message with multiple column mentions in detail or multiple
> notices? (I haven't looked at the patch to see if one or the other is
> easier with how it's set up)

I would expect it to generate one WARNING for each mismatch; doing
anything else would make life a lot more complex, both as to writing the
code and as to formatting the output readably.

regards, tom lane

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