Re: Enhanced error message to include hint messages for redundant options error

From: vignesh C <vignesh21(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Cc: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath(dot)rupireddyforpostgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Enhanced error message to include hint messages for redundant options error
Date: 2021-05-02 10:30:59
Message-ID: CALDaNm2WU+sDt5F-n+tzXnzfRmHkpHuViZ7_48wUqCWGHm_SGA@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 4:27 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
>
> On 2021-May-01, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
>
> > IMO, it's not good to change the function API just for showing up
> > parse_position (which is there for cosmetic reasons I feel) in an error
> > which actually has the option name clearly mentioned in the error message.
>
> Why not? We've done it before, I'm sure you can find examples in the
> git log. The function API is not that critical -- these functions are
> mostly only called from ProcessUtility and friends.

I feel it is better to include it wherever possible.

Regards,
Vignesh

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