| From: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Jim Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at> |
| Subject: | Re: Doing better at HINTing an appropriate column within errorMissingColumn() |
| Date: | 2014-04-02 20:33:11 |
| Message-ID: | CAM3SWZQfDSb+kvGDLPKNHhqYBomMaQ59rpoLytzKfH0p8kfNzw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> I don't have strong feelings about the feature, but introducing a guc
> for it feels entirely ridiculous to me. This is a minor detail in an
> error message, not more.
I agree. It's just a HINT. It's quite helpful in certain particular
contexts, but in the grand scheme of things isn't all that important.
I am being quite conservative in trying to anticipate cases where on
balance it'll actually hurt more than it will help. I doubt that there
actually are any.
--
Peter Geoghegan
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