Re: that picksplit debug message again

On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 01:19 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > Is the %d actually in the right place here?
> > errmsg("picksplit method for %d column of index \"%s\" failed",
> > attno + 1, RelationGetRelationName(r))
>
> No, any native speaker of English would say "for column %d". Putting
> "failed" at the end seems a bit awkward as well, though I can't offhand
> see a better phrasing. "picksplit method failed for ..." is *not*
> better; it implies there is only one picksplit method for everything,
> whereas the point of the message is that the one associated with this
> column failed.

"has failed"?

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