Re: CREATE TABLE creates a composite type corresponding to the table row, which is and is not there

From: Erik Wienhold <ewie(at)ewie(dot)name>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Hannu Krosing <hannuk(at)google(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: CREATE TABLE creates a composite type corresponding to the table row, which is and is not there
Date: 2024-07-26 02:11:22
Message-ID: ab400585-e89d-4479-a4bf-0a1c122b7bbf@ewie.name
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On 2024-07-25 22:29 +0200, Tom Lane wrote:
> Erik Wienhold <ewie(at)ewie(dot)name> writes:
> > Thanks, I didn't know that guideline. Both fixed in v6.
>
> This still isn't following our usual message style IMO. Here's a
> proposed v7 that outputs
>
> -ERROR: type stuff is not a composite type
> +ERROR: type stuff is the row type of another table
> +DETAIL: A typed table must use a stand-alone composite type created with CREATE TYPE.
>
> I did a bit of copy-editing on the docs changes too. One notable
> point is that I dropped the parenthetical bit about "(name optionally
> schema-qualified)". That struck me as quite unnecessary, and
> it definitely doesn't read well to have two parenthetical comments
> in a single four-line sentence.

Works for me. Thanks!

--
Erik

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