-*- Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ 2003-03-14 15:33 ]: > Darko Prenosil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What about user messages ? > > If I remember correct, MSSQL had a system catalog table with formated error > > messages, and it was possible to raise error with error number and it's > > parameters. It can be very useful when you must raise same error from > > different places in the code. > > But that's exactly the direction we are *not* going in. We had that > discussion a long time ago when we first started internationalizing > our error messages. Peter Eisentraut convinced everybody that we did > not want to tie error codes to unique error messages. [digs in archives > ...] See for example > http://fts.postgresql.org/db/mw/msg.html?mid=1279991 > I have no desire to revisit that choice. > > There is nothing to stop you from creating your own user-defined > messages, and even adding them to the .po files in your installation > if the need strikes. We aren't going to store them in any system table, > however.
What about the option of having error numbers unique, but have error numbers linked to error messages (unique in code, but share strings). Just my .02 ISK. -- Regards, Tolli [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
