"Daniel Verite" <daniel(at)manitou-mail(dot)org> writes:
> This output tend to reveal mistakes with tags, which is why I thought
> to expose it as a NOTICE. It addresses the case of a user
> who wouldn't suspect an error, so the "in-your-face" effect is
> intentional. With the function approach, the user must be
> proactive.
That argument presupposes (a) manual execution of the creation query,
and (b) that the user pays close attention to the NOTICE output.
Unfortunately, I think our past over-use of notices has trained
people to ignore them.
regards, tom lane