Re: BUG #6300: duplicate key value violates unique constraint

From: Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tv(at)fuzzy(dot)cz>, "tigran(dot)mkrtchyan" <tigran(dot)mkrtchyan(at)desy(dot)de>, Pg Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BUG #6300: duplicate key value violates unique constraint
Date: 2011-11-24 17:01:13
Message-ID: CAEYLb_W-pTGJzVENuC04fKeC0JWFUXCMCY+Do4v8R4+QkO6g1Q@mail.gmail.com
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On 24 November 2011 16:55, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of jue nov 24 13:14:38 -0300 2011:
>
>> What I think we want to distinguish between is things that are
>> PEBKAC/GIGO, and everything else.  In other words, if a particular
>> error message can be caused by typing something stupid, unexpected,
>> erroneous, or whatever into psql, it's just an error.  But if no
>> input, however misguided, should ever cause that symptom, then it's, I
>> don't know what the terminology should be, say, a "severe error".
>
> +1

+1

On reflection, that's better than what I proposed.

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