Re: BUG #14179: Not enough info in error message

Hello David,

thanks for you detailed answer. Maybe I check the lists when the feature becomes so urgent that I need to fix it myself.

Regards,
Daniel Migowski

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 3:50 AM, <dmigowski(at)ikoffice(dot)de<mailto:dmigowski(at)ikoffice(dot)de>> wrote:
The following bug has been logged on the website:

Bug reference: 14179
Logged by: Daniel Migowski
Email address: dmigowski(at)ikoffice(dot)de<mailto:dmigowski(at)ikoffice(dot)de>
PostgreSQL version: 9.5.2
Operating system: all
Description:

Hello,

I often get some error like: value too long for type character varying(160).
Not it is hard for me to check which column contained the constraint.

​This is a frequent complaint with no easy, and in some queries no possible, solution.​

I would love to see something like: "value too long for type character
varying(160) in column mytable.mycolumn"​

​CREATE TABLE sample (col text CHECK (length(col) <= 160));​

This would have safed me at least 20 hours during the last years!

If you fix this, please backport to 9.5, and I would immediately upgrade all
our servers.

​Even if this was improved upon it would never be back-ported. It is not a bug.

​There is more in-depth discussion out there on these lists but I do not have the time at the moment to search around for it.​

I did check the FAQ and this topic does not appear there :( Maybe it will in the future...

David J.