Tom Lane wrote: > The change in behavior would actually be in libpq, because it's > PQerrorMessage that is doing the deed (assuming a reasonably modern > server and libpq). What I was considering proposing was that we migrate > the error-cursor feature out of psql and into PQerrorMessage. This > would mean that you'd get responses like > > ERROR: column "foo" does not exist > LINE 1: select foo from a; > ^
This doesn't work on terminal using a variable-width font, does it? Sure, you can have all the interfaces use a monospace font, but it seems a weird thing to do. I think the line/character position should be returned in a separate error attribute in ereport. So for example pgAdmin could count characters and mark it in bold or use a different color. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
