Re: confusing message in check_tuple

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>
To: jian he <jian(dot)universality(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: confusing message in check_tuple
Date: 2025-06-17 05:21:13
Message-ID: 41ea2006-4d0a-4de3-ac10-c99d31be5e72@eisentraut.org
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On 12.06.25 08:26, jian he wrote:
> in contrib/amcheck/verify_heapam.c, check_tuple
> report_corruption(ctx,
> psprintf("number of attributes %u exceeds
> maximum expected for table %u",
> ctx->natts,
> RelationGetDescr(ctx->rel)->natts));

Agreed this is misleading.

> i think it should be
> report_corruption(ctx,
> psprintf("number of attributes %u exceeds
> maximum expected for table %u",
> ctx->natts,
> RelationGetRelid(ctx->rel)));
>
> or we can rephrase it another way, also mentioning
> ``RelationGetDescr(ctx->rel)->natts``.

I think they did want to mention RelationGetDescr(ctx->rel)->natts. How
about

"number of attributes %u exceeds maximum expected for table (%u)"

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