Re: Better error message for select_common_type()

From: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Better error message for select_common_type()
Date: 2007-04-24 00:11:25
Message-ID: 87hcr63a36.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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"Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

> For the VALUES case, the suggestion of "row" and "column" terminology
> seems the right thing, but for UNION it would be better to use "branch"
> perhaps ("row" certainly seems misleading). How can we make that work
> without indulging in untranslatable keyword-insertion?

Hm, I guess the SQL spec terminology in both cases would be "table
expression".

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Gregory Stark
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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