Re: Another quick question...

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Another quick question...
Date: 2002-08-01 04:52:58
Message-ID: GNELIHDDFBOCMGBFGEFOIEHHCDAA.chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
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> "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> > If you have RelationGetRelationName(rel) to get the name of a
> relation, how
> > do you get it's fully qualified schema name? Or how do I get the schema
> > name for the relation?
>
> Well, you can do get_namespace_name(rel->rd_rel->relnamespace), but
> I don't really agree with changing error messages to *always* quote
> the schema name. I think that'd be overly verbose. An appropriate
> solution is to mention the schema name only when it's necessary to
> identify the relation (ie, the rel would not be found in your current
> search path).

The problem I see is that imagine you're browsing your logs. If you see an
error message (or a notice) that refers just to a table, you have no idea
which schema the table is in...

Chris

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