Re: Better auth errors from libpq

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, 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 16:27:17
Message-ID: 48CA9865.9090408@commandprompt.com
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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.

Perhaps the middle man isn't needed.

Joshua D. Drake

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