Error messages changes for 7.3?

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#1Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us

There is discussion on hackers to change certain error message text for
7.3. The change would be:

ERROR: ExecAppend: ... => ERROR: ExecInsert: ...

and

ERROR: ExecReplace: ... => ERROR: ExecUpdate: ...

APPEND/REPLACE are the old QUEL-language commands, while INSERT/UPDATE
are the SQL ones.

Does such a change in 7.3 cause anyone problems? We are particularly
interested in people who parse these error strings and don't want them
to change.

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#2Robert Treat
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In reply to: Bruce Momjian (#1)
Re: Error messages changes for 7.3?

I can imagine this will cause some people headaches, but I can't imagine
it would cause more pain than the schema support changes are going to
cause. I would much prefer having to do something like:

find / -type f -print | xargs perl -pe 's/ExecAppend/ExecInsert/g'

rather than digging through client code to make query changes. I can
definitely see the benefits from an ease of use side, was there
something else that prompted the change?

Robert Treat

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On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 23:56, Bruce Momjian wrote:

There is discussion on hackers to change certain error message text for
7.3. The change would be:

ERROR: ExecAppend: ... => ERROR: ExecInsert: ...

and

ERROR: ExecReplace: ... => ERROR: ExecUpdate: ...

APPEND/REPLACE are the old QUEL-language commands, while INSERT/UPDATE
are the SQL ones.

Does such a change in 7.3 cause anyone problems? We are particularly
interested in people who parse these error strings and don't want them
to change.

--
Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us

#3Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Robert Treat (#2)
Re: Error messages changes for 7.3?

Robert Treat wrote:

I can imagine this will cause some people headaches, but I can't imagine
it would cause more pain than the schema support changes are going to
cause. I would much prefer having to do something like:

find / -type f -print | xargs perl -pe 's/ExecAppend/ExecInsert/g'

rather than digging through client code to make query changes. I can
definitely see the benefits from an ease of use side, was there
something else that prompted the change?

Nope, just consistency.

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