Re: Uninformative messages from pg_ctl

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Uninformative messages from pg_ctl
Date: 2007-10-09 16:16:18
Message-ID: 200710091816.18669.peter_e@gmx.net
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Am Dienstag, 9. Oktober 2007 schrieb Simon Riggs:
> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 14:25 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > I believe, however, that this approach is wrong. The "real error", as
> > you put it, is the one reported by the kernel -- by definition.
> > Everything else is at best a "hint".
>
> Are you objecting to making the wording of the hint/error clearer?

Not at all. I'm just trying to point out that it's not quite as obvious as it
may seem. Let's see a patch.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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