Re: [HACKERS] A plan to improve error messages with context, hint and details.

2004-03-05 Thread Tom Lane
Fabien COELHO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> In particular, we determined that the appropriate place for this sort of >> thing is on the client side, not in the backend. > The current status of clients is that none of those I use will report > anything useful. So fix the clients. We have been th

Re: [HACKERS] A plan to improve error messages with context, hint and details.

2004-03-04 Thread Tom Lane
Fabien COELHO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (1) Lexical/syntax error source localisation > An extract of the offending source must be shown if possible along syntax > error messages. You would do well to go to the archives and read some of the previous discussion of these issues. In particular,

[HACKERS] A plan to improve error messages with context, hint and details.

2004-03-04 Thread Fabien COELHO
Dear Hackers, Motivation -- As a basic user of postgresql, I've been quite disappointed by the lack of help provided by postgresql error messages dealing with syntax and semantical errors, especially in long sql statements: ERROR: syntax error at or near "(" at character 326 T