Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While we're effectively changing every elog call site in the backend, > would it also be a good idea to adopt a standard for the format of error > messages? (e.g. capitalization, grammar, etc.)
Yup. I was planning to bring that up as a separate thread. I think Peter has already put some thought into it, but I couldn't find anything in the archives... > If we wanted to get fancy, we could make use of the glibc ability to > generate a back trace programatically: Hmm ... maybe. Certainly we all too often ask people to get this info by hand ... too bad it only works in glibc though. >> In gcc-compiled >> backends, the function name will be provided automatically by errstart, >> but there will be some places where we need the name to be available even >> in a non-gcc build. > To be honest, I'd be sceptical whether there are enough platforms > without *either* gcc or a C99 compiler that it's worthwhile worrying > about them that much (all that is at stake is some backward > compatibility, anyway). I'm only planning to bother with the errfunction hack for messages that I know are being specifically tested for by existing frontends. ecpg looks for "PerformPortalFetch" messages, for example. If we don't keep that name in the (old version of the) error message then we have a compatibility problem. But I do want to move away from having function names in the primary error message text. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])