Re: Patch for Improved Syntax Error Reporting

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, "'Fernando Nasser'" <fnasser(at)cygnus(dot)com>, Neil Padgett <npadgett(at)redhat(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Patch for Improved Syntax Error Reporting
Date: 2001-08-02 22:22:38
Message-ID: 200108022222.f72MMc926225@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Basically, upgrading syntax-error behavior to something useful will take
> some cooperation from the client side as well as the backend. IMHO we
> shouldn't dumb down our ambitions to be merely what can be implemented
> without any client cooperation.

I like the idea of putting the formatting stuff in libpq. It
centralizes it, and allows the client to control the formatting too.

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