Re: [HACKERS] errmsg("... because ...")

2004-12-11 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are a bunch of error messages saying something like > "cannot foo because bar" > What do you think of changing those to use errdetail in addition to > errmsg? I'm dubious that this is really an improvement... In any case we are past string freez

[HACKERS] errmsg("... because ...")

2004-12-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Hackers, There are a bunch of error messages saying something like "cannot foo because bar" For example, errmsg("cannot assign to field \"%s\" of column \"%s\" because its type %s is not a composite type") What do you think of changing those to use errdetail in addition to errmsg? So this pa