Re: event trigger test exception message

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: event trigger test exception message
Date: 2015-01-05 21:50:03
Message-ID: CA+TgmobRZOmc=ok4P=ErFhxEfHZox1QUcgqsybvcTvZHQUfUnw@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> I don't wish to seem humorless, but I think this should probably be changed:
>>
>> root/HEAD/pgsql/src/test/regress/sql/event_trigger.sql:248: RAISE EXCEPTION
>> 'I''m sorry Sir, No Rewrite Allowed.';
>>
>> Quite apart from any other reason, the "Sir" does seem a bit sexist - we
>> have no idea of the gender of the reader. Probably just 'sorry, no rewrite
>> allowed' would suffice.
>
> This seems pointless tinkering to me. Should I start introducing female
> pronouns in test error messages, to measure how much this will annoy my
> male conterparts? This is not a user visible message in any case.

I'm with Andrew. Aside from any question of sexism, which I do not
discount, the capitalization is wrong.

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Robert Haas
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