Re: Confusing message in log file

From: "Gurjeet Singh" <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "PGSQL Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Confusing message in log file
Date: 2008-07-01 14:07:03
Message-ID: 65937bea0807010707ycc1bdeckbdbf459362c066c0@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > In any case, this seems a case of stuffing too much in the primary
> > message.
>
> Yeah, good point.
>
> > I think it should be something like
> > errmsg("parameter \"shared_buffer\" change in configuration file
> ignored"),
> > errdetail("This parameter cannot be changed after server start.")
>
> Seems a bit awkwardly phrased. I propose
>
> errmsg("attempted change to parameter \"shared_buffer\" ignored"),
> errdetail("This parameter cannot be changed after server start.")
>
> (or possibly "of" would read better than "to")
>
>
'of' sounds better than 'to'.

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