Re: Bug in pg_describe_object

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Joel Jacobson <joel(at)gluefinance(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, AndreasKarlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, DimitriFontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Jim Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Bug in pg_describe_object
Date: 2011-01-11 15:16:35
Message-ID: 1294758917-sup-3430@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mar ene 11 10:52:12 -0300 2011:

> Well, we shouldn't change them randomly or arbitrarily, but improving them is another thing altogether. I think the contention that any user or application anywhere is depending on the exact textual representation of a pg_amproc entry is exceedingly dubious. And I think the current messages are flat-out confusing.

Tom also mentioned that the descriptions are translated, so an
application built to parse anything out of the strings is already
broken.

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