"Daniel Verite" <dan...@manitou-mail.org> writes: > This output tend to reveal mistakes with tags, which is why I thought > to expose it as a NOTICE. It addresses the case of a user > who wouldn't suspect an error, so the "in-your-face" effect is > intentional. With the function approach, the user must be > proactive.
That argument presupposes (a) manual execution of the creation query, and (b) that the user pays close attention to the NOTICE output. Unfortunately, I think our past over-use of notices has trained people to ignore them. regards, tom lane