| From: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Better auth errors from libpq |
| Date: | 2008-09-12 16:45:28 |
| Message-ID: | 20080912164528.GN27694@fetter.org |
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On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:30:12PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> >
> >>> The only thing I would say here is that you point the URL to
> >>> current which will be wrong in one release. Perhaps something
> >>> that pulls the pgversion macro?
> >>
> >> We don't put URLs in error messages. The hint needs to be a real
> >> sentence.
> >
> > Which is exactly why its the first thing we do when supporting
> > people. Point them to the URL in the docs.
>
> Let's add a new field in error reports: errurl()
Excellent idea :)
Cheers,
David.
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