Re: BUG #6300: duplicate key value violates unique constraint

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tv(at)fuzzy(dot)cz>, tigran(dot)mkrtchyan <tigran(dot)mkrtchyan(at)desy(dot)de>, Pg Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #6300: duplicate key value violates unique constraint
Date: 2011-11-24 16:55:17
Message-ID: 1322153640-sup-9631@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of jue nov 24 13:14:38 -0300 2011:

> What I think we want to distinguish between is things that are
> PEBKAC/GIGO, and everything else. In other words, if a particular
> error message can be caused by typing something stupid, unexpected,
> erroneous, or whatever into psql, it's just an error. But if no
> input, however misguided, should ever cause that symptom, then it's, I
> don't know what the terminology should be, say, a "severe error".

+1

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