| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Ian Barwick <ian(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Jim Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at> |
| Subject: | Re: Doing better at HINTing an appropriate column within errorMissingColumn() |
| Date: | 2014-07-09 14:50:07 |
| Message-ID: | 20140709145007.GN6390@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org |
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Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Michael Paquier
> <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >> > 5) Do we want hints on system columns as well?
> >> I think it's obvious that the answer must be no. That's going to
> >> frequently result in suggestions of columns that users will complain
> >> aren't even there. If you know about the system columns, you can just
> >> get it right. They're supposed to be hidden for most purposes.
> >
> > This may sound ridiculous, but I have already found myself mistyping ctid by
> > tid and cid while working on patches and modules that played with page
> > format, and needing a couple of minutes to understand what was going on (bad
> > morning).
>
> I think that it's clearly not worth it, even if it is true that a
> minority sometimes make this mistake. Most users don't know that there
> are system columns. It's not even close to being worth it to bring
> that into this.
I agree with Peter. This is targeted at regular users.
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