From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | "Rob S(dot)" <rslifka(at)home(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] OSDN Database conference report (long) |
Date: | 2000-11-03 16:08:49 |
Message-ID: | 6744.973267729@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Rob S." <rslifka(at)home(dot)com> writes:
>> ... I thought this pointed up the need we've
>> been aware of for awhile to overhaul our error reporting.
> I'm not sure exactly where the error checking comes in. I've been using
> Postgres in two places - at home (Apache/Tomcat) and at work (Apache/iASP)
> for the last 8 months or so. The only gripe I have with error messages is
> that they could be more specific. "Error near <some character that occurs
> 20+ times in the query>" is usually pretty useless =) Otherwise, I can't
> recall a single time where I said, "man that message should be more clear".
The thing is that any error that the database itself issues is probably
database-centric; it may be helpful to the person coding the application,
but is unlikely to make a lot of sense to an end user. So well-coded
apps typically want to substitute their own error messages --- say,
"please enter a positive value" rather than "rejected due to CHECK
constraint foo". We need to provide more support for that. A
consistent numbering scheme for error codes would help, for instance,
so that apps could just look at the error number and not be dependent
on pattern-matching against strings that the developers might reword
from time to time.
As I said, this has been on the todo list for awhile...
regards, tom lane
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