Re: Enhanced error message to include hint messages for redundant options error

On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 5:12 PM vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 1:40 PM Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> > On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 at 15:30, vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 4:25 PM Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> > > > As it stands, the improvements from (3) seem quite worthwhile. Also,
> > > > the patch saves a couple of hundred lines of code, and for me an
> > > > optimised executable is around 30 kB smaller, which is more than I
> > > > expected.
> > >
> > > Agreed, it can be handled as part of the 2nd patch. The changes you
> > > made apply neatly and the test passes.
> >
> > Pushed.
> >
> > I noticed that it's actually safe to call parser_errposition() with a
> > null ParseState, so I simplified the ereport() code to just call it
> > unconditionally. Also, I decided to not bother using the new function
> > in cases with a null ParseState anyway since it doesn't provide any
> > meaningful benefit in those cases, and those are the cases most likely
> > to targeted next, so it didn't seem sensible to change that code, only
> > for it to be changed again later.
> >
> > Probably the thing to think about next is the few remaining cases that
> > throw this error directly and don't have any errdetail or errhint to
> > help the user identify the offending option. My preference remains to
> > leave the primary error text unchanged, but just add some suitable
> > errdetail. Also, it's probably not worth adding a new function for
> > those remaining errors, since there are only a handful of them.
>
> Thanks for pushing this patch. I have changed the commitfest status to
> "waiting for author" till 0002 patch is posted.

I'm marking this entry in commitfest as committed, I'm planning to
work on the other comments later once I finish my current project
works.

Regards,
Vignesh