Tom, OK, figured out what happened. I submitted the desired change, *coincidentally* right before the error message got broken. As a result, I mistakenly believed that the behaviour had been fixed by someone else before I could get to a patch. Since I was travelling at the time (OSCON) I didn't check to see that there actually had been a patch. OOops.
I will have to find standards documentation on this grey area and hopefully submit something for 8.3. -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL @ Sun San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly