Re: psql \watch 2nd argument: iteration count

At Tue, 14 Mar 2023 12:03:00 -0700, Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote in
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 01:58:59PM +0900, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
> > + if (*opt_end)
> > + pg_log_error("\\watch: incorrect interval value '%s'", opt);
> > + else if (errno == ERANGE)
> > + pg_log_error("\\watch: out-of-range interval value '%s'", opt);
> > + else
> > + pg_log_error("\\watch: interval value '%s' less than zero", opt);
> >
> > I'm not sure if we need error messages for that resolution and I'm a
> > bit happier to have fewer messages to translate:p. Merging the cases
> > of ERANGE and negative values might be better. And I think we usually
> > refer to unparsable input as "invalid".
> >
> > if (*opt_end)
> > pg_log_error("\\watch: invalid interval value '%s'", opt);
> > else
> > pg_log_error("\\watch: interval value '%s' out of range", opt);
>
> +1, I don't think it's necessary to complicate these error messages too
> much. This code hasn't reported errors for nearly 10 years, and I'm not
> aware of any complaints. I till think we could simplify this to "\watch:
> invalid delay interval: %s" and call it a day.

I hesitated to propose such a level of simplification, but basically I
was alsothinking the same thing.

regards.

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center