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Style of file error messages


  • From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
  • To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Style of file error messages
  • Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 18:18:02 +0200
  • Message-id: <200705301818.02837.peter_e@gmx.net> <text/plain>

Just to get an opinion, which is better:

could not open transaction log file "%s": %m
could not open control file "%s": %m
could not open data file "%s": %m
could not open temporary file "%s": %m
could not open whatever file "%s": %m

or just:

could not open file "%s": %m

It seems to me that by the time you get to a file error message of this 
level, the higher-level purpose of the file is pretty irrelevant.  
(Specific exceptions might exist.)  Log analysis tools might also 
prefer a uniform format.

Anyway, some consistency either way would be nice.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/



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