Re: Qualified tables in error messages

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: "Mendola Gaetano" <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Qualified tables in error messages
Date: 2003-08-20 17:21:51
Message-ID: 9909.1061400111@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> Why not wrap all 'identifier' outputs in a call to the quoting function, so
> the above message would in fact appear as:
> table schema.foo does not exist
> but with a space in it it would appear like this:
> table "schema 2".foo does not exist

This doesn't conform to the message style guidelines we agreed to,
which specify quoting of user identifiers in messages. I think the
guidelines are correct on this point --- consider for instance
table exists does not exist
which could easily be a tad confusing...

regards, tom lane

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