On 11/29/21, 1:03 PM, "Tom Lane" <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > If we issue the hint only for errno == ENOENT, I think we could be > less wishy-washy (and if it's not ENOENT, the hint is likely > inappropriate anyway). I'm thinking something more like > > HINT: This means the extension is not installed on the system.
Good idea. > I'm not quite satisfied with the "on the system" wording, but I'm > not sure of what would be better. I agree that we can't just say > "is not installed", because people will confuse that with whether > it is installed within the database. Right. The only other idea I have at the moment is to say something like This means the extension is not available[ on the system]. I don't know whether that is actually any less confusing, though. Nathan