misleading (or perhaps confusing) error messages

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Subject: misleading (or perhaps confusing) error messages
Date: 2000-08-31 00:08:42
Message-ID: 200008310008.e7V08gk90036@hub.org
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Dave E Martin (xxiii(at)cyberdude(dot)com) reports a bug with a severity of 3
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Short Description
misleading (or perhaps confusing) error messages

Long Description
When an error is generated as the result of a trigger (or other indirect action) it would be helpful if the error message could somehow indicate the trigger was the cause, rather than the executed statement itself.
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for instance:

insert into NAS values (...);
ERROR: nas_make: Permission denied

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While the error message is technically correct, it tends to leave one scratching one's head, until one remembers or realizes that a trigger was involved.
When dealing with a complicated series of statements and/or transactions it may be considerably more difficult to make the required inference from the error message.

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