Re: proposal psql \gdesc

Hi

2017-06-04 10:47 GMT+02:00 Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>:

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> Hello Brent,
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> Regarding the error message earlier
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> 'No columns or command has no result',
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> it might be clearer with the slightly longer
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> 'The result has no columns or the command has no result'.
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> I agree that a better phrasing may be possible.
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> I'm hesitating about this one because word "result" appears twice, but
> this is the underlying issue, maybe there is no result, or there is a
> result but it is empty... so somehow this might be unavoidable. On
> rereading it, I think that your sentence is better balance as the two cases
> have both a verb and a structured the same, so it seems better.
>
> Another terser version could be: 'No or empty result' or 'Empty or no
> result', but maybe it is too terse.
>
> I didn't read the patch though, just the email so that might not make
>> sense in context.
>>
>
> Thanks for the suggestion!

new update - rebase, changed message

Regards

Pavel

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> Fabien.
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